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TIL That Down Syndrome named as such because the term "Mongolian Idiocy" is deemed offensive and so the family name of the person who published paper about it, John Langdon Down, used to rename the syndrome and that happened long after he died. Down also used to call them "Mongolian Idiots"

VBLX4 TIL there is a LARP party in Czechia, where you roleplay contemporary rural Americans
Lo5p TIL A 12-year-old girl was arrested, handcuffed, and detained at a police precinct for several hours for doodling on her desk in class.
jNNYa Lassie, stare deeply into my eyes.
R7YMw TIL that US President Calvin Coolidge had a high almost helium like public speaking voice.
691BX TIL the USMC once used a modified version of DOOM to do simulation trainings