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TIL California forcibly sterilized more than 20,000 people between 1919 and 1953

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4XBeo TIL that Soviet music bootleggers in the 50s and 60s would take discarded X-Ray film from hospitals and re-purpose them into improvised phonograph records containing banned music. These recordings were called "Rib Music", "Jazz on Bones", or "Roentgenizdat"
6EPbY TIL so many significant events in German history have happened on November 9 that historians have called the date 'The Day of Fate'. Events which have occurred on this date include Kristallnacht & the fall of the Berlin Wall.
4r8R TIL Aerosmith got an idea for one of their hit songs when they saw that scene in “Young Frankenstein,” where Igor told Dr. Frankenstein to “walk this way.”
VMgrD TIL there are mysterious ancient stone cart tracks all over Malta, some of which disappear over cliffs and reappear at the bottom of the ocean.
XELWR TIL That when a batch of ice cream doesn't turn out right, producers mix it with chocolate ice cream instead of throwing it away. It's not noticeable due to chocolate's dark colour and strong flavour and is known as "reconditioning" in the food industry.