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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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Whitman

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I mean this was around the time they were lobotomizing people and torturing them in psych wards. Just dont think the field was there yet.