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TIL the United States sterilized over 60,000 people from 1907 to 1974 for being feeble-minded or an imbecile

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4kKLN TIL that 500,000 weapons are sold each year to the Mexican Cartels by straw-purchasers in "border states"
PYdpJ TIL that women in Cuba have equal constitutional rights as men in the economic, political, cultural and social fields, as well as in the family. Women hold 48.9% of the parliamentary seats in the Cuban National Assembly.
jNo8M TIL There is no "Missing Link" in Human Evolution. The term "missing link" has fallen out of favor with biologists because it implies the evolutionary process is a linear phenomenon and that forms originate consecutively in a chain. Instead, the term Last Common Ancestor is preferred.
LQAM9 TIL about Mapinguari, a monstrous jungle-dwelling spirits from Brazilian folklore that protects the forest and animals. It's described as a former human shaman turned into a hairy humanoid cyclops and has a gaping mouth on its abdomen. Some claim it's a modern-day sighting of a giant ground sloth.
rRRvw It would burn a hole through you—and then some.