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TIL Hoarding Disorder was not recognized as a disorder until the DSM 5 came out in 2013. Many believe the show Hoarders which came out in 2006 influenced considerable scientific research leading to it's official inclusion in the DSM.

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woAp6 TIL The average American owns seven pairs of jeans, one for each day of the week and buys four new pairs every year.
LkmNv TIL that placebo (substance with no therapeutic value) is used not only in pharmacy to test drugs, but also in surgery to test the effect of intervention.It's called sham surgery, when surgical intervention omits the step thought to be therapeutically necessary. There was 53 sham surgery cases.
ybml TIL that Justice Thurgood Marshall used to refer to Chief Justice Warren Burger as “Hey Chiefy Baby” to make him feel uncomfortable
GGbg TIL the “perfect Aryan baby” chosen by Goebbels and widely circulated in mid-1930s Nazi propaganda was later found to be Jewish
GYpQ1 TIL during the Summer of 1858 London England dealt with "The Great Stink". A heat wave combined with an inadequate sewer system made the area reek of human waste for weeks. It lead to an overhaul of the sewer system that took 17 years to complete