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TIL Quebec's provincial government intentionally misclassified 20,000 children as mentally ill and confined them to psychiatric institutions in order to misappropriate federal subsidies for the benefit of the Catholic Church

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WNVB TIL The US government dropped leaflets in Japan during WW2, warning civilians of impending nuclear attacks and advising them to evacuate.
X0A88 TIL 2 to 3 people die each year, on average, in the TT Isle of Man Motorcycle Race. Since 1937, there has only been one year when the race did not cause someone's death.
e0Ja5 TIL Roger Fisher proposed that in the event that the US President needed to activate nuclear weapons, he (the Pres) would need to get it from a volunteer which has the codes implanted near their heart.
WjAX TIL Gary Sinise (LT Dan) started a band after 9/11 called the LT Dan Band and has performed an average of 30 Gigs per year since for Soldiers serving over-seas, and is the national spokesperson for American Veterans Disabled for Life memorial
reve TIL the reason Microsoft changed their word font setting from Time New Roman to Calibri 11 was to acknowledge the end the print era and the rise of the digital age.