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TIL of patient AB - "the first and only instance in which hallucinatory voices sought to reassure the patient, offered her a specific diagnosis, directed her to the hospital, expressed pleasure that she was well again, bid her farewell, and thereafter disappeared."

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vPlx8 TIL about Frederick S. Dawn (Tang Xinyuan), who was a NASA Chief Engineer and textilist who invented several heat-resistant fibers that were critical in the development of the US Space Program. He was later called "The Father of the Space Suit" after Apollo 11's successful landing.
neRr9 TIL about Serbian folk singer Milance Radosavljevic.When he was young he was struck by lightning and pronaunced dead.He was burried with his prized harmonica.Grave diggers came that night to retrive his harmonica, and found him alive. He went on having a successful music career, and is still alive.
7jYL TIL In 1889 a lion escaped from a traveling show in Birmingham and ran into the sewers. When an angry mob formed, Frank Bostock, the owner secretly snuck another lion out the back. He then returned with the lion clearly visible and was hailed a hero. The escaped lion was still in the sewers.
Y7J5G TIL That in June 2005, 3 movies based on the HG Wells novel War of the Worlds all came out in the same month
bA9Q TIL Stalin had a secret lab to analyze the feces of other foreign leaders for the purpose of constructing psychological portraits. For example, a leader with high levels of tryptophan was assumed to be calm and approachable, while a lack of potassium indicated a nervous disposition.