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TIL that between 1996-2000, more than 250,000 indigenous women were coerced into sterilizations by the Peruvian government

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GYVp1 TIL during WWII there was a Finnish soldier who overdosed on amphetamines to escape from Soviets. In the following week, he proceeded to ski 400 km (250 miles), dropped down to 94lb, survived a landmine, and ate a bird raw.
LkbQQ TIL of Cathedral High School, a small school in El Paso, that was revoked of its Notre Dame Leprechaun logo after going unnoticed by the college for over 86 years.
RMK7 TIL that Bob Jones University Press sells “history” textbooks to hundreds of thousands of homeschooled kids, teaching them that gays are on-par with rapists, the Trail of Tears was a good thing, the KKK was just a “reform movement”, etc.
1NyO TIL that there is evidence that humans as recently as the Greeks could not see the color blue and described “blue” things like the ocean as “wine-dark” as written in the Odyssey.
gkaD TIL that the scent of a familiar human evokes a reward response in the brain of a dog.