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TIL Teddy Roosevelt said: “I wish very much that the wrong people could be prevented entirely from breeding; and when the evil nature of these people is sufficiently flagrant, this should be done. Criminals should be sterilized and feeble-minded persons forbidden to leave offspring behind them.”

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dDmJE TIL that if you detect a mass in your testicles, doctor informed you can take an at home pregnancy test and if it comes back positive, you may have testicular cancer.
KOREa TIL the 1969 movie "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" was nominated for a total of 9 Oscars including directing, screenplay, editing, music and 3 out of 4 acting awards. Yet, it somehow wasn't nominated for Best Picture. It still holds the record for most nominations without one for Best Picture.
rN4N1 TIL the City of Inglewood was predominately white up until the 1960s. It was also a "sundown town," where signs were posted warning blacks that they weren't welcome in town after dark. Homes were even sold with restrictive covenants legally forbidding selling to black families.
ep7n5 TIL Scientists studying visual perception superglued patches on cuttlefish to Velcro 3D glasses on them. The cuttlefish kept the glasses on long enough for the research team to determine that they have stereo vision (like humans).
1agRX TIL in 2003 a herd of wild elephants released a group of captive antelopes from a game reserve in Southeast Africa. The matriarch of the herd undid all of the gate's metal latches with her trunk & then pushed it open. The antelope took their chance & ran into the bush followed by the elephants.