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TIL About 500,000 to 1,000,000 Mexicans and Mexican Americans were forcibly/"voluntarily" deported back to Mexico from the US from 1929 to 1939, after the US administration scapegoated Mexicans for the Great Depression. 40 to 60% of those were citizens of the United States, overwhelmingly children.

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OGBv1 TIL that dozens of indigenous women have gone missing in and around the Yakama Reservation in Yakima, Washington, USA. Some have been found dead, and most cases are unsolved.
LrKd TIL Maya Lin, designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in DC, faced harassment based on her ethnicity after her design was picked, including presidential candidate Ross Perot calling her an “egg roll”.
mxm1v TIL Stan Freberg, who replaced Jack Benny on CBS radio in 1957, refused to allow tobacco manufacturers as sponsors, despite it being an impediment to his career.
ep7Mk TIL of the Brahan Seer, a Scottish prophet who stated that when there were 5 bridges built over the River Ness, there would be worldwide chaos. in 1939, the fifth bridge was built, and then Hitler invaded Poland.
wLbKE TIL that Ice-T has been in a heavy metal band for nearly 30 years.