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TIL: On Sept. 16, 2017, 5,000 Juggalos marched on to Washington, D.C., to protest their gang classification

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6XRl TIL when universal health insurance was passed in Saskatchewan-Canada, doctors were so opposed to it they striked for 23 days.
0wr8M TIL the first official Medals of Honor were awarded to several Union soldiers who went behind enemy lines and commandeered a train and sabotaged their way back to the North.
8egxG TIL: Sam McDaniel (brother of Hattie McDaniel) was the first and only African African actor to ever appear on the classic television series "I Love Lucy."
1aXWO TIL some cultures lack masturbation. The Aka and Ngandu people of the Congo Basin have no word for masturbation and are confused by the concept.
5VQKB TIL that due to "Subjective Age" most children and adolescents feel older than they really are. But this switches at around 25. By age 30, around 70% of people feel younger than they really are, with the discrepancy between actual age and subjective age growing over time.