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TIL The Maimonides Dream Telepathy experiments were real scientific studies conducted during the 1960s and 1970s at the Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. Led by researchers such as Dr. Montague Ullman and Dr. Stanley Krippner, the experiments aimed to investigate the possibility of te

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Pr6w TIL in between 5 and 10 percent of males masturbate while lying on their stomach. It is called prone masturbation and can cause irreversible sexual dysfunction.
9YlXX TIL of a 240 year old robot boy called "The Writer" - ancestor to the computer and can be "programmed" to write 40 character sentences
gEpX TIL Serial killer and cannibal Richard Chase only broke into houses that were unlocked. If they were locked, he thought it meant he was unwelcome but if they were not he saw it as an invitation to enter.
DQN5g TIL the worlds oldest and still operational company is Kongō Gumi. A Japanese construction company that was founded 1,446 years ago.
OKvL TIL of MOVE, a Black Power movement that was involved in several standoffs with police. There was a 1978 incident where an officer was shot and killed, resulting in life sentences for nine members, and a 1985 incident where police bombed their compound, destroying 65 homes and killing eleven people.