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TIL that US President Herbert Hoover falsely blamed Mexican Americans for the Great Depression, and decisively lost reelection after his mass deportation efforts did not resolve the economic crisis

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6R1w TIL an astronaut threw a boomerang while in a space station and it returned to him. As long as there is air to provide the necessary forces, a boomerang will return to its thrower, even in the weightlessness of Earth’s orbit.
1RnO TIL that in Sydney Australia snipers are deployed to protect colonies of little penguins from predators
1847 TIL Two baby girls were switched at birth in 1931 at the Leiden University Medical Center. Suspicions didn’t rise until two decades later, when the girls met at a wedding and wondered at their mutual likeness to each other’s family.
KeQ9 TIL Chlorine was originally put into pools to stop the spread of Polio.
AN987 TIL that Julie Kavner has a clause in her Simpsons contract that she doesn't have to promote herself on camera as Marge's voice