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TIL In the early 70’s a treatment model for schizophrenia that used no drugs or psychiatrists rehabilitated the majority of the patients that attended it.

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ERV TIL the meaning of the word mortgage is literally “death contract”
j6eGX TIL that the inscription "Arbeit macht frei" ("Work makes you free") above the entrance gate to the Auschwitz camp is no longer the original, which has been kept in a museum since it was stolen and found cut into pieces in 2009.
JKJQ TIL that a book claiming that sunscreen, not the sun, is the number one cause of skin cancer, and that AIDS is “one of the greatest hoaxes and deceptions ever perpetrated on the American public” was #1 on the New York Times best-seller list and sold 5 million copies in the U.S.
EgZaV TIL North Korea depends on human feces as fertilizer, they put annual mandatory quotas, and people often steal from each other to fill their feces quota
v77x TIL in 2013, a Jägermeister-sponsored party went awry, when the staff threw liquid nitrogen into the pool to create smoke. The nitrogen displaced oxygen, poisoning the people around. 9 partygoers were hospitalized, including one who fell into a coma.