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TIL "borderline personality disorder" was named to describe patients who seemed on the borderline of psychosis

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Nnb1 TIL When the Kurds revolted against British rule in the 1920’s, Winston Churchill said; “I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against the uncivilized tribes… it would spread a lively terror.” Decades later, Saddam Hussein did what Churchill advocated (Poison Gas Attack on Halabja, 1988).
PXOG TIL The word “Jurassic,” which we so often associate with dinosaurs, comes from the Celtic word for “forest”
rNpO1 TIL the first documented landing on Australia by a European was around March 1606.
9wBgG TIL a doctor poisoned his mom's boyfriend, while disguised as a nurse administering a fake booster shot, because his mom put him in her will. The doctor likely injected him with iodomethane, a pesticide which caused him to get necrotising fasciitis. However, he did survive the ordeal.
gM8py TIL That thanks to the Plague, 10% of Europeans are immune to HIV.