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TIL in WW2 the Finnish bombers joined the formations of returning Russian planes and bombed the landing and landed planes.

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mjkP TIL that during America’s eugenics movement some 60,000 people were involuntarily sterilized. The Supreme Court upheld the practice in an opinion written by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, who wrote that “three generations of imbeciles is enough.”
10y7 TIL in 1910, when asked how much vacation time a worker should take annually, President Taft recommended 3 months
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MeDkb TIL about Juneteenth: an American holiday that commemorates the June 19, 1865 announcement of the emancipation of enslaved African Americans throughout the former Confederate States of America.
yV5mX TIL one major concern of establishing human settlements on Mars is pregnancy. It is likely that members of craft may engage in sex due to their stressful and isolated environment, and it is still not fully known how the environment in a spacecraft would affect the development of a child aboard.