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TIL Joseph Müller was sentenced to death for telling a political joke in Nazi Germany

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QNEvE TIL The Page Act of 1875 barred entry of Asian immigrants suspected of entering the US involuntarily or for sex work. In practice, the law targeted Chinese women by appealing to a common stereotype that they were prostitutes and dangerous to the institution of marriage.
Me5v8 TIL that in 2000 a doctor was driven from her home by vandals who were confused between paedophile and paediatrician and thought she was a child molester.
1aRr8 TIL that a bunch of people actually thought Stephen Spielberg actually shot and killed a triceratops.
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