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TIL that Nikola Tesla was an advocate of sterilizing criminals and people with mental problems, and he believed that by 2100 people who aren’t “desirable parents” shouldn’t be able to breed.

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1x1D TIL that an 18 year old was sentenced to 17 years in prison for statutory rape, his consensual underage partner was male. If it had been a girl, the maximum sentence would have been 15 months. He served in prison for 5 years until the Kansas Supreme Court ordered his release.
VBX1D TIL in a cave near Nazareth, archeologists found a skeleton of a 13 year old boy with with deer horns that had been placed on his chest. The cave was dated to be around 92,000 years old.
XAvQ TIL that mopeds and scooters emit 10-30 times the amount of hydrocarbons per km that cars do
PYv4J TIL that the skatman was made to help people with stammers. Scatman John himself suffered from a severse stammer
NP9b TIL that some cattle ranchers in South Dakota lost between 20 and 50 percent of their livestock in winter storm Atlas, and may not be eligible for insurance due to the expiration of the Farm Bill and federal government shutdown.