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TIL In order to make it seem like the Nazi party was doing good things, the unemployment statistics from Germany stopped including women, Jews, and young men.

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l7vxr TIL about the Cuban Rafter crisis resulting in 35k fleeing to u.s. by makeshift rafts. Resulted in 16k deaths (1994)
nWEmW TIL that people with aphantasia cannot visualize or picture memories
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VMEy8 TIL that some chimpanzees have been observed sharpening sticks with their teeth and using them as spears to hunt small mammals.