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TIL that since the 1st Thanksgiving and 1900, MORE than 9 million 300 thousand members of 1st Nations (Native Americans), have been victims of genocide at the hands of the US Government.

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mxALP TIL Francis Crick who won the Nobel Prize for discovering the structure of DNA was under the influence of LSD when he first made the discovery.
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