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TIL Hippocrates proposed the first classification of mental health disorders: Mania, Melancholy, Phrenitis, Insanity, Disobedience, Paranoia, Panic, Epilepsy and Hysteria. Some of these terms are still used today

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JYA48 TIL that the first movie about the Titanic came out 29 days after the actual ship sank, starred a real life survivor who wore what she had on the night it sank in the production, and resulted in her suffering a mental breakdown shortly after its completion.
Xakj TIL 35 children (and 1 adult) died in Ireland because the nuns didn’t want the firemen to see the children in their pyjamas.
nO89 TIL Paper bags haven’t been proven to be “greener” than plastic bags. Paper causes more harm to produce, plastic more harm after produced.
VM5nZ TIL that North Carolina Congress man Robert Potter resigned from Congress after castrating two men he believed were having an affair with his wife in (1831).
bJ1Q TIL 50% of Toronto’s populace was born outside Canada