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TIL that President John F. Kennedy's younger sister, Rosemary Kennedy, was diagnosed as mentally deficient and forced to undergo a lobotomy. She was strapped to a table against her will and lobotomized, permanently incapacitating and institutionalizing her until her death in 2005.

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