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TIL the US government forcefully sterilised thousands of native american women until the late 1970s.

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XEx4P TIL Paris has many public drinking fountains that produce sparkling water
9KK7 TIL Holy Roman Emperor Charles V was one of the first people to propose creating a Panama Canal
wLDO8 TIL this 90s Coke ad campaign in Australia was cancelled after sexual imagery was noticed in the ice cubes
EgEd7 TIL 41 years ago, today, 3 people died on the set of Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983); under the negligent direction of John Landis, after he ordered a helicopter's tail-rotor directly over staged FX explosives. Bringing down the copter, decapitating two and crushing the other to death.
1aw7V TIL a British scientist rode a bike fitted with an ultrasonic distance sensor to see how closely cars would pass him. He found that cars gave him about 6 inches more space when he was wearing a wig so that drivers passing from behind would think he was a woman.