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TIL that SCOTUS ruled in 1927 that forced sterilizations were legal and to this day, that decision has not been overturned.

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ep0Xb TIL the famous Saigon evacuation helicopter photo at the end of the Vietnam War was not from the US embassy, but from the roof of an apartment building that housed senior CIA personnel.
VBwPQ TIL the Banksy art that was shredded at Sotheby's auction in 2018 sold for £18M in 2021.
OoxWa TIL that Marvin Gaye, the man who wrote the world renowned peace anthem "What's Going On" got into a fight with his wife and proceeded to point a knife directly at her heart. Damn dude, what happened to "Don't punish me with brutality ?"
VwrD TIL that there was a submarine named the USS Kamehameha.
xVPG7 TIL that there is a species of desert rodent, the Kangaroo Rat, which does not drink water at all. Instead it absorbs water through the metabolic oxidation of the seeds it eats and uses it with near perfect efficiency.