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TIL more Mexican immigrants (1,000,000 people) have returned to Mexico from the U.S. than have migrated to the U.S. (870,000 people) since the end of the Great Recession

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7A1P TIL that a whistleblower named Gustl Mollath was forcibly committed to a psychiatric hospital for claiming that a major bank was engaging in money laundering. A report by the bank itself later leaked, proved that Mollath was right and allowed him to be released.
QJwpp TIL Astronomers discovered a solid planetary body that may actually be the core of a giant gas planet that lost its atmosphere. This body is about 3.5 times the radius of Earth but has a 39 times greater mass than Earth.
QPQd TIL the US discontinued the half cent in 1857, when it had more buying power than a dime has today.
Rav7 TIL That having older brothers increases a male’s chance of being homosexual
R7164 TIL that Japan's Air Force dropped massive amounts of ceramic bombs filled with bubonic plague-infested fleas in Ningbo, China during WW2