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TIL North Carolina had a Eugenics Board from 1933-1977 which forcibly sterilized over 7,600 mostly poor, minority women (some of whom were rape victims) and then refused a proposal this year to compensate the living victims.

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M74A7 TIL that despite the frequent assertion that lesbian relationships have the highest DV the source data paints a different picture.
Z8BL4 TIL that the velociraptor noises in Jurassic Park are actually tortoises having sex
V8PD TIL that the greek origin of the word “idiot” was used to mean someone who did not participate in politics and public affairs
aw1oN TIL that John Rhys-Davies (also Gimli in Lord of the Rings) is the original voice actor for Man Ray in early seasons of Spongebob Squarepants
GYkl7 TIL that people with blue eyes all have a single, common ancestor. A mutation occurred between 6,000 and 10,000 years ago, up until which we all had brown eyes.