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TIL unclaimed property is the "fifth-largest revenue source" for the state of California

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oBdDK TIL, in order to enforce the "one child policy", 324 million Chinese women were subjected to mandatory IUD insertions between 1980 to 2014. Usually with a type that couldn't be removed without major surgery.