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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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W7OV8 TIL Jack Black was the offical rat catcher for Queen Victoria and bred rats to sell them as pets
78QNX TIL that the date of Easter every year is based on the Moon Cycle
pYyj8 TIL: The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek in 1831 allowed those Choctaw who chose to remain in Mississippi to become the first major non-European ethnic group to gain recognition as U.S. citizens.
d8RJQ TIL a Colombian footballer was murdered after scoring an own goal, knocking Colombia out of the 1994 FIFA World Cup. The next day, a BBC commentator for another match remarked, “the Argentine defender warrants shooting for a mistake like that”.
D1Jmv TIL that the surgeon who pioneered organ transplant proved it by sewing dogs heads to other dogs