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TIL that 64,000+ Americans were forcibly sterilized during the 20th century, to promote “superior genetics”. Backers included Kellogg, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Carnegie Institution. The Nazi’s were partially inspired by Americans

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WKbL TIL the Netherlands experienced a ‘tulip mania’ in 1637. Before the bubble collapsed, a single bulb could sell for 10-times the annual income of skilled worker
RBZ1 TIL Adolf Hitler kept a life-sized portrait of Henry Ford next to his desk
OGvda TIL Mussolini gave women the right to vote for the first time in Italy in 1925, however he abolished free elections soon after, making the newly acquired right completely meaningless
7rMR7 TIL: Winston Churchill won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
b9KeZ TIL that the USS Constitution, built in 1797 is the world’s oldest ship still afloat and is still in active service in the US Navy