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TIL That Naturally Occurring Ice Is Technically A Mineral
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TIL that in 1979, a number of people called in sick with a case of “being homosexual,” in protest of homosexuality being classified as an illness. Within a few months, Sweden joined the few other countries in the world at the time to de-classify homosexuality as an illness.
E1Dex
TIL The Beatles were signed to EMI (Electrical and Musical Industries) in 1962 and with their insane success the label funded the research that lead to the CT scanner, which EMI released in 1972.
eBab
TIL the fear of palindromes is aibohphobia
8Vo4
TIL: Rock Against Racism was formed in part as a protest against racist remarks by David Bowie and Eric Clapton. The latter announcing “Britain was in danger of becoming a ‘black colony’. Among other things, Clapton said 'Keep Britain white!’ which was at the time a National Front slogan
LrMZ
TIL naturalist Chris Packham said he would “eat the last panda if I could have all the money we have spent on panda conservation put back on the table for me to do more sensible things with.”