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TIL That during the Great Depression, the US deported around 1 million Mexicans. An estimated 60 percent of them were American Citizens.

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8ymb TIL there is a Canadian cartel which controls roughly 70% of the world’s maple syrup production. It allocates production, sets prices, and maintains a strategic reserve of 40 million pounds of syrup to protect against market fluctuations.
8aOnZ TIL Arborglyph is the carving of shapes and symbols into the bark of living trees. Derived from arbor ‘tree’; glyphein ‘to carve’. It was also mentioned in Shakespeare’s ‘As You Like It’; the love-frenzied Orlando declares he will carve every tree in the Forest of Arden.
5ybQ TIL that Polar Bears are practically invisible on thermal cameras.
ANYNB TIL There are people whose jobs include masturbating dogs for a living. They are called theriogenologists. 😳
avEL TIL the NFL is considered a not-for-profit organization and does not pay taxes.