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TIL The World Health Organization identified homosexuality as a mental illness through 1992

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Eg0Xo TIL six inmates on a work detail in Georgia saved an unconscious deputy sheriff. Instead of escaping with his gun and the work truck, they dialed 911 on the deputy's phone instead. As appreciation, the sheriff's department threw a pizza party with homemade sweets for the men.
nexRG TIL: During the kidnapping of Israeli athletes at the Olympic games in 1972, police dressed as athletes were planning to sneak attack the kidnappers. But local television crews were broadcasting them on live TV and the kidnappers were made aware of the plan.
7yEr TIL when President Ronald Reagan was shot in 1981 and was taken into surgery, Reagan removed his oxygen mask to joke, “I hope you are all Republicans.”
VBMOp TIL that 86% of acute onset OCD cases are linked to streptococcus infections in children due to pediatric acute onset neuropsychiatric syndrome.
RAl TIL that the magazine KIDS DISCOVER does not publish a single advertisement in their issues because they don’t believe in marketing to minors