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TIL that the APA declassified homosexuality as a mental illness in 1973

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N7Qeb TIL that in 1955, Quaker Oats gave away free land deeds as part of a cereal promotion. Participants could mail in their cereal box to redeem a plot of land sized 1 inch x 1 inch in a gold-rush region of Canada.
D1kyV TIL David Burtka the actor of Scooter in HIMYM is acutally the husband of Neil Patrick Harris who plays Barney in said series
QNMDk TIL Tipping in the United States became popular in the late 19th Century due to restaurant owners refusing to pay Black workers after the ratification of the 15th Amendment.
WkNOB TIL Wagner-Jauregg (1927) managed to cure syphilis by infecting the patient with malaria. He won the Nobel Prize for Medicine.
VBZQp TIL a woman had half of her brain removed when she was 8 due to a condition that caused her to have up to 150 seizures a day. Her doctors said she'd never drive, she got her license at 17. She went on to earn her bachelor's & master's degrees in just 5 years before becoming a speech pathologist.