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TIL about fertility doctor, Dr Donald Cline who fathered 94 children by secretly discarding the sperm donated by the patients’ husbands and instead used his own sperm to inseminate them.

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nW8aY TIL the origin of the phrase “government cheese”
QNGxX TIL About 500,000 to 1,000,000 Mexicans and Mexican Americans were forcibly/"voluntarily" deported back to Mexico from the US from 1929 to 1939, after the US administration scapegoated Mexicans for the Great Depression. 40 to 60% of those were citizens of the United States, overwhelmingly children.
B4Wy TIL Uber stated the median driver in New York City was making $90,000 a year when in reality they were actually making around $38,000.
m1Wxo TIL that Quipu, intricate arrays of knotted cords, were used by Andean cultures to record data without a written language.
KkxR TIL a New Zealand man built a working cruise missile for $5,000 USD using legally obtained parts mostly from eBay