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TIL Rosemary Kennedy was forced back into her mother’s birth canal, depriving her brain of oxygen. As a child, she failed to reach developmental milestones; at 23, she underwent a frontal lobotomy to modify behavior, leaving her mentally crippled. She was institutionalized for the rest of her life.
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TIL that in 1933, FBI Director John Edgar Hoover learned of a namesake who had failed to pay a debt of $900 to a store in Washington. As Hoover was particular about paying his bills on time and so did not want to be associated with this disreputable behavior, he changed his name to “J. Edgar Hoover”
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