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TIL that Gonorrhea, the 3rd most common STD, is on the verge of becoming untreatable

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gr1R9 TIL the Nyah-Nyah Nyah-Nyah Nyaaah Nyaaah teasing song melody is used all over the world! (Ring around the Rosie tune)
4Byo TIL Omicron Persei is a real star about 1000 light years away from Earth
DEMY TIL that Behind the Green Door (1972) was one of the first pornographic films to feature sex between a white actress (Marilyn Chambers) with a black actor (Johnnie Keyes). The porn industry and viewing public were shocked by the then-taboo spectacle of a white woman having sex with a black man.
BrL9D TIL about Insulin Shock Therapy, which was a treatment to schizophrenia in the 1950's in which you used to repeatedly inject the patient with insulin to induce comas.
P1QZL TIL after CIA agents John Downey and Richard Fecteau were captured in China, premier Zhou Enlai offered to release them if the US acknowledged them as agents. US secretary of state Dulles not only refused but also forbade others from cooperating, resulting in them being imprisoned for 20 years.