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TIL that the American Psychiatric Association officially banned its members from commenting on a public figure’s mental health without examining them. The policy is known as the Goldwater rule.

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kJ0AW TIL that the reason Washington DC was created as a perfect square was due to vague wording in The Constitution in which it stated that the capital district must be "10 miles square".
d86gZ TIL Slaves were given redacted bibles so they would not read anything that could cause them to rebel. Most of the old testament and half of the new testament was omitted.
j6NkM TIL that the Host of the famous tv show America’s Most Wanted, John Walsh, became an advocate for missing children after his 6 year old son was abducted and brutally murdered in 1981
1nQ4 TIL that making memes in Australia is illegal.
P1MLn TIL In 2004 Microsoft entered a legal battle with a 12 grader named Mike Rowe over the domain name MikeRoweSoft.com.