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TIL the American College of Pediatricians is a group that links pedophilia to homosexuality and promotes "conversion" therapy. The name is intended to create confusion with the American Academy of Pediatrics, the professional association of pediatricians.

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wo6RM TIL The Mediterranean Race (or 'Mediterranid Race') is an obsolete racial classification of humans based on the now-disproven theory of biological race. From the late 19th to mid-20th Centuries, it was widely believed that Mediterranean people were a specific sub-race of the Caucasian race...
QvO6 TIL WWII Japan killed 4 million more people than the Nazis, practiced Mengele-like human experimentation, cannibalized and tortured POWs, and forced women into military sex slavery
N7Zl6 TIL Adidas refuses business partnerships with any organization that has ties to Scientology; including a contract clause for existing partnerships that states, “any organization or association which represents the principles of L. Ron Hubbard will be void."
X019P TIL of the Schön scandal, concerning physicist Jan Hendrik Schön, who rose to prominence after a series of breakthroughs with semiconductors that made him in contention for the Nobel prize. It was later discovered that all his research was completely fraudulent.
m1N6Y TIL that on April 23 1953 Dwight D Eisenhower issued Executive Order 10450 which banned homosexuals from working for the federal government or any of its private contractors. An estimated 5000-10,000 people lost their jobs because of this policy, now known as the "lavender scare".