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TIL that during the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were deported to Mexico without due process. An estimated 1.2 million were US citizens.

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R7yjj TIL unlike what most people think, being Agnostic is the view that "human reason is incapable of providing sufficient rational grounds to justify either the belief that God exists or the belief that God does not exist."
jN9oN TIL about Postorgasmic Illness Syndrome. A condition where men experience flu like symptoms (fevers, headache, sore throat, and watery eyes). It occurs after approximately 90% of "ejaculation events" for effected men. This reaction is thought to be secondary to an allergy to ones own semen.
yynv TIL that when Dachau was liberated, the US Army murdered 75 unarmed SS officers, and covered it up until 2001.
grMly TIL during the Titanic's sinking, Lucile Carter and her children was separated from her husband William. When she met him again on the rescue ship Carpathia, "All he said was that he had had a jolly good breakfast and that he never thought I would make it." They divorced less than two years later.
kOVV1 TIL in New Zealand you require neither licencing or training to captain a recreational boat.