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TIL Dr. John Fryer of Philadelphia appeared at the 1972 APA convention wearing a rubber mask to deliver a speech about the hardships of being a psychiatrist and gay. His speech was vital to getting homosexuality off the list of mental disorders.

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6EENW TIL in China you can order live fish and the fish is cut open, boiled, and served while it is still squirming. Not for the squeamish.
Br5XK TIL in 1964 Coca-Cola threatened to leave Atlanta if elites didn’t recognize MLK’s Nobel Prize.
b9m9Q TIL In 1975, the mummified body of a bank robber was found in an amusement park by a TV crew. It’d been mistaken for a wax mannequin, and was only found out after a man moved it and its arm fell off, exposing human bone. It was identified as the body of Elmer McCurdy, who had died in 1911.
nemKB TIL divers always enter the water backwards to break the water surface with the oxygen-tanks first, causing less of a painful impact, plus to protect the more fragile instruments they carry on their front.
epV4L Today I learned that Heinz invented the word “Ketchup” ~100 years ago; before, it was called “Catsup”