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TIL Homosexuality was still classified as an illness in Sweden in 1979. Swedes used this to call into work “sick,” saying they “felt gay.”

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0w8d1 TIL of Jean Lanfray, a labourer who murdered his wife and children in a drunken rage in Switzerland in 1905. His murders were blamed solely on the influence of absinthe, despite the fact that he’d drunk many other alcoholic beverages. It set off a moral panic, and Switzerland soon banned absinthe.