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TIL that thousands of poor Black women were sterilized involuntarily in several southern states by white physicians when they presented for care for other health issues. The procedure became known as a Mississippi Appendectomy.
nKvb
TIL crime is a major problem in Pine Ridge Indian reservation and since many of the Native Americans grow up as master horsemen, the reservation has an actual problem with gangs of Indians on horseback terrorizing the towns and riding away into the sunset where police vehicles can’t follow.
1yQd
TIL that after watching the movie ‘Lincoln’ (2009) , a neurobiologist did some extra research and found out that the state of Mississippi had never officially banned slavery. The state then ratified the 13th amendment (which bans slavery) in 2013, 148 years after Abe Lincoln first introduced it.