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TIL Apparently Easter Island's Heads Have Bodies

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PYJME TIL about Ursula and Sabina Eriksson, two Swedish identical twins who in 2008 suffered from folie à deux (or "shared psychosis") in London and went on a rampage that involved assaulting police, pedestrians and eventually murder.
mxYbR TIL in 1925, two medical students received a cadaver and a challenge. In response, they spent 1,500 hours dissecting a human nervous system -- beginning at the base of the brain and working downward -- leaving the system intact in one continuous piece.
LQMQ TIL that 2 dogs were executed for witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials
b9xG4 TIL Actress Catherine Hickland, after her divorce from David Hasselhoff, married an actor named Michael Knight
grKny TIL that in pre-modern China, poor families adopted girls to make sure their sons will be able to marry in future while other poor families with unwanted girls gave away their daughters.