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TIL that conversion therapy is still legal in Europe, but there is a petetion active to finally combat this ancient practise!

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ne6E7 TIL that a Scottish man lost 276 pounds by not eating for 382 days. He only drank tea, coffee, and sparkling water and took vitamin supplements.
j6K1R TIL Operation Midnight Climax was a program by the CIA in the mid 50s that used prostitutes to lure unsuspecting men to apartments in New York and San Francisco to drug them with LSD to test whether the combination of sex and LSD might influence the men to reveal information the government wanted.
Abgg TIL Nintendo actually bred its own type of flower to market their series “Pikmin”. This flower the Chaenostoma cordatum also known as the bacopa cabana is also called the “Pikmin flower” for that reason.
b9WJa TIL of Precordial catch syndrome, a condition where you get random harmless stabbing pains in the chest
Wj64 TIL that in Ghana, when Hollywood movie posters can’t be imported, locals will try their hand at drawing the posters for their bootleg screenings.