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TIL that during WWII the united states asked for Mexicans to cross the border to work agricultural jobs.

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grvGy TIL Fritz Haber invented a process of ammonia synthesis both to save the world from starvation and to serve the German war machine. He never saw the creation of Zyklon B from his process and its use by the Nazis to kill his relatives in the gas chambers.
ANN4g TIL The subtitle for the 1880 novel Ben Hur is A Tale of the Christ. The movie poster for the 1959 film had "Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents A Tale of the Christ".
rRlmd TIL that nearly 100 people in Germany die annually while masturbating, and that forensic examiners estimate one to two people per million are killed each year globally.
6LZ7 TIL that during the 2014 Thai coup d'etat, sandwiches were used as an anti-coup symbol, and a group of students were charged with “possessing sandwiches with ill intent”.
VMQdm TIL that the Vietnamese word for the country of Italy is simply the letter "Ý".