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Heartbeat in the Brain - Lost 1970 documentary in which the director/subject drills a hole in her forehead with a dentist's drill ( en.wikipedia.org )

The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World ( en.wikipedia.org )

I wonder whether the author discussed the horrors of 19 century capitalism, since he despises "tariff barriers, building regulations and confiscatory taxes".

TIL that undefeated heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano’s punch was tested by Boxing Illustrated in 1963, and found to have more explosive energy than an armour piercing bullet. ( en.wikipedia.org )

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1d0v9z7/til_that_undefeated_heavyweight_champion_rocky/...

TIL about spider number 16, the longest lived spider on record, and the decades long study by researcher Barbara York Main ( en.wikipedia.org )

The article is short so I recommend reading it. I started adding the key points below, but ended up including almost the entire article:...

TIL that in 1932, Fritz Gerlich, a German journalist, made fun of Hitler’s bigotry by publishing a satire article “proving” that Hitler was Mongolian. Later, Gerlich was taken to Dachau and murdered. ( en.wikipedia.org )

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1cvbnwy/til_that_in_1932_fritz_gerlich_a_german/...

Place names considered unusual ( en.wikipedia.org )

TIL The last incarnation of the Fiat 500 (1972—1975) was the R model ... the fuel gauge was omitted and only the low fuel indicator remained. ( en.wikipedia.org )

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1cngi8u/til_the_last_incarnation_of_the_fiat_500_19721975/...

[Nostalgia] An American Tail & An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (western animated movies) ( en.wikipedia.org )

Cross-posted from: !animationafter30...

Portal - Australian avant-garde death metal band known for their complete anonymity, executioner costumes, and a chaotic sound that unsettles even fans of the genre ( en.wikipedia.org )

Vivos (underground shelter) ( en.wikipedia.org )

Bony-eared assfish ( en.wikipedia.org )

Anencephaly - Absence of a major portion of the brain, skull, and scalp that occurs during embryonic development ( en.wikipedia.org )

TIL about the existence of Wikipedia's Nearby page, a list of pages tagged with coordinates nearby where you are ( en.wikipedia.org )

Henry Darger - Reclusive janitor revealed posthumously to be the author of a 15,145-page fantasy manuscript depicting young children being tortured and massacred ( en.wikipedia.org )

Robert Durst - American real estate heir who nearly got away with murder until his gleeful participation in an HBO documentary finally did him in ( en.wikipedia.org )

D. B. Cooper - Unidentified man, who hijacked a Boeing 727 in 1971. Parachuted into the night with $200,000 ransom from the plane. Never been found or conclusively identified. ( en.wikipedia.org )

Toxopneustes pileolus (flower urchin, a highly venomous reef-dwelling echinoderm) ( en.wikipedia.org )

One of the only marine organisms I find truly terrifying

Dunkleosteus ( en.wikipedia.org )

Lavender Scare ( en.wikipedia.org )

Sleep and His Half-Brother Death ( en.wikipedia.org )

Cold-stimulus headache ("brain freeze") ( en.wikipedia.org )

TIL that while Alexander the Great conquered the known world, he never attempted to attack the city-state of Sparta. ( en.wikipedia.org )

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1df2shk/til_that_while_alexander_the_great_conquered_the/...

Women in refrigerators ( en.wikipedia.org )

Women in refrigerators is a literary trope coined by Gail Simone in 1999 describing a trend in fiction which involves female characters facing disproportionate harm, such as death, maiming, or assault, to serve as plot devices to motivate male characters, an event colloquially known as "fridging" (originating from the gruesome...