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TIL in the 1900s, over 60,000 US citizens were forcefully sterilized under the reasoning that they were disabled or mentally unfit to birth America’s future generations.

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woVEE TIL of Jelle’s Marble Run which pits marbles either head to head or team against team in a number of different races and competitions; color commentary included
1oGd TIL Peta Kills About 85% of the Animals They “Save”
xdv1 TIL in 1997 a killer whale held a great white shark upside down for 15 minutes, causing it to suffocate, after which it ate only its liver.
nW49d TIL that during the 1956 Hungarian revolution, British embassy staff, with the aid of Hungarian revolutionaries, were able to capture an abandoned Soviet T-54 tank and keep it in the British embassy long enough for British engineers to study the tank and determine its strength and weaknesses.
78ewZ TIL that the Post-It note was invented by a scientist at 3M who attempted to develop a super-strong adhesive but instead, accidentally created a "low-tack", reusable, pressure-sensitive adhesive