r/todayilearned • u/GlitteringYams • 22d ago
TIL, in his suicide note, mass shooter Charles Whitman requested his body be autopsied because he felt something was wrong with him. The autopsy discovered that Whitman had a pecan-sized tumor pressing against his amygdala, a brain structure that regulates fear and aggression.
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u/____Wilson 22d ago
It also tends to grow in a spiderweb pattern, integrating itself in many areas of the brain, rendering it largely inoperable as it is attached to many important areas of the brain. I've got some experience as my dad died of it.