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TIL Trash is America’s #1 export to China

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alXA TIL in 1927 the United States Supreme Court ruled to allow for the compulsory sterilization (for example, cutting of the fallopian tubes) of those deemed to be “unfit” and “feeble minded”. This decision was seen as a way to improve the human race by genetic selection.
oBKZW TIL that 99% of people on internet communities are lurkers and only 1% actively create new content, according to a rule known as the the 1% rule.
dAEK TIL New York City is turning its old payphones into “time machines:” Pick up a payphone, call 1-855-FOR-1993 and hear a story, about what that neighborhood was like 20 years ago.
VZM8 TIL Churchill’s ‘We will fight on the beaches’ speech was never recorded. The famous recording is him reciting it in his home 4 years after the war.
Oo56Y TIL Prodigy's video for "Smack My Bitch Up" depicts a night out in London, graphically portraying snorting cocaine, using heroin, drinking and driving, violence, vomiting, vandalism, nudity and a sex scene, all filmed from a first-person perspective . It was banned everywhere.