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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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7gO TIL that the Ancient Olympic Games were held for over 1000 years from 776 BC until 394 AD, when the last emperor of the Roman Empire suppressed the Games as part of his effort to end all “pagan cults and practices” and impose Christianity as a state religion.
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