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TIL in 1947, James Hanes, the hosiery magnate who started the Hanes brand, helped found the Human Betterment League of North Carolina, driving the eugenics movement in North Carolina, which sterilized 7,600 people who were deemed unworthy of having children.

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oRlAR TIL, the Pan-European Picnic was a peaceful demonstration in 1989 where the border between Austria and Hungary was open for 3 hours and It was the largest refugee movement since the Berlin Wall was built. It started the chain reaction of the Warsaw Pact dissolving and the end of the Cold War.
wLZL8 TIL in 1914 the wife of the French PM assassinated a newspaper editor to prevent him from leaking that she and her husband had been dating while still married to their previous spouses. She was acquitted for 'uncontrollable female emotions'
mYXo TIL that Charleston, AR was the first southern school system to integrate (not Little Rock, AR.) When asked how it could be done without violence, an attorney named Dale Bumpers said, “We’ll just do it.” The board integrated the schools without announcing it to the press, and there was no violence.
7xrx TIL: The oldest known example of figurative art is a 40,000 year old lion-headed sculpture carved out of the ivory of a woolly mammoth.
YpObG TIL 46 out of 50 states have an agreement with big tobacco, where they are given disbursements based off the sale of cigarettes. As Non Participating Manufacturers (Vapes & Eliquid) enter the market the states begin to lose hundreds of millions. Here is NY's as an example.