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TIL Ronnie Gibbs, a 15 year old girl with a drug problem, was sentenced to (and is serving) life in prison without parole for having a miscarriage after trying to get clean

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W7J99 TIL that India and Pakistan played a Cricket World Cup Match in 1999 while both countries were at war with each other.
1LKV TIL That during the Great Depression, the US deported around 1 million Mexicans. An estimated 60 percent of them were American Citizens.
p8Zo8 TIL of Soda locomotive, a fireless locomotive that ran on sodium hydroxide. When steam came in contact with the sodium hydroxide, it would generate enough heat to actually run the boiler and generate more steam and propel the locomotive forward.
M7D6B TIL Genghis Khan was responsible for destroying the order of Assassins.
Z8M0p TIL avocados must be picked to ripen, can stay on the plant for 7 months as "storage" , and take 13 months to grow a mature avocado.