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TIL 80% of Americans and one-third of humanity can’t see the milky way at night

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QNGxX 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.
WXRN TIL Only two countries vote every year in the UN to oppose a resolution to lift the US economic embargo and other sanctions against Cuba: The USA and Israel.
b9A7j TIL Joe Son from Austin Powers ("Random Task" "who throws a shoe?") Is in jail for torturing a woman, and then murdered his cellmate.
9YBJX TIL Kathy Lee Gifford was one of the early singers on "Name that Tune".
0QbL TIL that in the early years of baseball, it was common for players to go in the stands and assault heckling fans. Ty Cobb once attacked a handicapped man for calling him a “half-nigger.” Fans shouted at him to stop because the man had no hands, he reportedly retorted “I don’t care if he got no feet”