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YpbM7 TIL that after the introduction of Chlorpromazine, the first ever antipsychotic, psychiatric hospitalization went down from 560,000 to 193,000 twenty years later.
ep5k TIL that in the 1650s Anthony Johnson, an African man, won a court case that let him keep another African, John Casor, as his slave instead of ending his indentured servitude. This meant that the first legally recognized owner of a permanent slave in America was an African man.
A4Ka TIL That Skeletor is actually He-Man’s uncle.
wYNo TIL the most leaves ever found on a single clover is 56
vPRvx TIL a modern coal powered car was invented by General Motors after gas shortages in the 70s.