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TIL in 1927 the US Supreme Court ruled it constitutional for the government to forcefully sterilize mentally handicapped people.

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m1Nvp TIL that Scrabo Tower was built in Northern Ireland to honor land owner Charles Stewart the 3rd Marquess of Londonderry because of his kindness to his tenants and servants during the Potato Famine. His effort to ease their suffering was rare in 1840’s Ireland during the famine.
DxpJ TIL: Ballistics tests confirmed a gun registered to Tupac Shakur shot the bullet which killed a 6 year old boy in 1992 during a fight between his crew and an unruly crowd
bERp TIL some Spartans were expected to have male lovers, but purely physical relationships between males was condemned by the state. Instead the older lover was expected to act as the guardian and guide during the younger lover’s military training.
ADoZg TIL Nicolas Cage once donated $2 million to Amnesty International for them to use to offer rehabilitation shelters, medical services and psychological and reintegration services to some of the 300,000 children forced to fight in conflicts across the world.
O58a TIL Winston Churchill covered up the “Katyn Massacre” of 20,000 poles by the soviets to pursue the alliance, assuring them that “We shall certainly oppose vigorously any ‘investigation’ by the International Red Cross… Such investigation would be a fraud and its conclusions reached by terrorism”.