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TIL about the theremin, an electronic musical instrument played without any physical contact

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XNxE TIL a high school principal in Florida hypnotized dozens of anxious students and athletes to help them relax. When two of those students committed suicide and one died in a car accident, the principal was charged with two misdemeanors and lost his teaching license.
ARWx TIL that in 1990, Jon Hamm brutally assaulted a pledge of the Sigma Nu fraternity by setting fire to the pledge’s underwear and forcing him around by his testicles with the claw of a hammer.
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VMo8Z TIL Abraham Lincoln signed the order to create the Secret Service on the same day he was assassinated.
wrd1 TIL of a woman who had a phantom itch so persistent and severe in her scalp that she scratched through her skull while she slept, damaging her brain.