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

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9Ym9B TIL that September 4th 1909, saw the first Boys Scout rally in Crystal Palace, South London. The gathering was organized by Baden-Powell & saw 11,000 boys in attendance. Amongst the thousands in attendance, a handful of girls crashed the event. Dressed in uniform, they called themselves Girl Scouts.
5xrR TIL that Coco Chanel was a Nazi.
m8DY TIL There is a live webcam on the back of a tortoise that you can watch 24/7
VBGg4 TIL that all of the rubber in a car tyre is one single molecule.
8a9DP TIL that in 1974 a local in Alaska played an April fool's joke on April 1st of an entire city. He set about 100 car tires, smoke bombs and other flammable materials on fire in the crater of an inactive volcano to make it look like the volcano was about to erupt.