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TIL between 1970 and 1976 alone, between 25 and 50 percent of Native American women were sterilized.

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Xr1k TIL there’s a proposal to build an underground park within an old station in New York, lit by daylight transported by fiber optic cables to allow trees and grass to grow
kJ6k5 TIL the book on which the movie "The Exorcist" is based was initially a failure. The author lucked out when he was invited as a last-minute guest on late night show, The Dick Cavett Show. Subsequently, the book hit The New York Times best-seller list and was picked up by Warner Bros for the movie.
e0V4E TIL California forcibly sterilized more than 20,000 people between 1919 and 1953
W7y78 TIL that male bees will ejaculate themselves to death during heatwaves.
R7Xyl TIL Baby Doe Tabor went from rags to riches to rags again after her husband lost his fortune the panic of 1893. She lived in a mining tool shed for 30 years in Leadville Colorado and was found frozen to death at the age of 81.