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TIL in Communist Romania natalist policies of Nicolae Ceaușescu led to 100k+ kids into Orphan Homes where they were Beaten, Starved, Drugged, tied to own beds and spent days in own urine and feces

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KgPQ TIL in 2004 a man was found naked and beaten behind a Burger King. With dissociative amnesia, and despite multiple attempts including DNA, scientists have yet to determine the identity of this man who calls himself Benjaman Kyle.
YpZWP TIL that it's illegal to die in Longyearbyen, Svalbard (Norway) because dead bodies weren't decomposing properly because of how far north it is. If someone is dying, every effort will be made to ship them to the mainland.
Vrbk TIL the “Daisy Girl” political ad for Lyndon B. Johnson only ran once, in 1964, but was considered an important factor in his landslide victory and remains one of the most controversial political ads ever.
XElxE TIL William Shatner filmed Leonard Nimoy secretly during a convention appearance to include as footage in his film without Nimoy’s permission, prompting Nimoy's refusal to ever speak to him again. Shatner never understood why.
EbQ7 TIL that when doctors did not belive Drs. Barry Marshall and Robin Warren’s discovery in 1982, which showed that Helicobacter pilory causes stomach ulcers, Marshall himself drank a beaker of H. pylori culture. He bacame ill of stomach ulcers and they won the nobel prize in physiology in 2005.