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TIL homosexuality was still classified as an illness in Sweden in 1979. Swedes protested by calling in sick to work, claiming they felt gay

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D1bpY TIL that in China 209 BC two generals were going to be late which was punishable by death. They realized that the punish for rebellion was the same as the one for being late, so they decided to rebel and created an uprising.
Z11p TIL that Amy Van Dyken, a 6-times Olympic gold medalist swimmer, has been an asthmatic her whole life, proving that children with asthma can grow to be olympic-level athletes!
d8ZVZ TIL that a 'perfectly' measured dose of chloroform soaked in a rag would take around 5 minutes to knock a person out, rather than almost immediately.
4pnR TIL that the song “Macarena” tells the story of a woman who cheats on her boyfriend, Vitorino, when he’s out of town, with “his two friends” that “were so fine”, and now wishes to take home anyone that can dance in an acceptable manner.
JYEwv TIL 70% of the human genome is transcribed but only 2% of it codes for proteins; the rest has been known since the 1960's as non-coding RNA or "junk RNA".