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In the 1950s, at least 50,000 lobotomies were performed in the United States by hammering an ice pick into patients' brains through their eye sockets.
✓snopescom rating: uncertain; published on 2023-01-21
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left political leaning
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neutral sentiment
Date published
2023-01-21
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