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TIL in 1983, a 19-year-old named George shot himself in the head in an attempt to end his battle with OCD. Instead of killing him, the bullet ended up destroying the part of his brain that controlled the obsessive behavior, curing the OCD.

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evN4 TIL of the graphite bomb, a non-lethal weapon that can be delivered via warhead causing failure in electrical power systems by spreading a cloud of fine carbon particles that encourage arcing and short-circuiting between power lines.
7oBO TIL when Janni Schofield was not even a month old, she was able to correctly identify colors. At 1 year old, she could read. At 18 months, she could speak fluently. What her parents originally took for genius turned out to be a mask for something much darker caused by child-onset schizophrenia.
Me0w8 TIL Van Halen's guitarist, Eddie Van Halen practiced playing drums first, while his brother Alex took up the guitar. However, when Eddie saw Alex mastered the drum solo in the song "Wipe Out", they decided to switch roles. Eddie went on to be one of the greatest rock guitarists in the world.
R5Dxj TIL that Radio City Music Hall in New York was originally intended to showcase vaudeville-style acts, but the initial opening was a disaster with singers and dancers dwarfed by the cavernous 6,200 seat hall. It then primarily became a movie theater and venue for large scale concerts and stage shows.
W7dgA TIL before his comedy career, Chevy Chase was a drummer in the college band The Leather Canary, a group with Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, who would later go on to form Steely Dan.