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TIL the infamous "Woman in Red" who betrayed John Dillinger did so to keep from being deported. The FBI promised to help her, and in the end, she was deported anyway.

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1a594 TIL of Jane Elliott, a teacher who divided her class into blue-eyed and brown-eyed. The brown-eyed group were told they were less intelligent, the blue-eyed superior, the brown-eyed accepted their lower position and the blue-eyed became more arrogant
9wkQ6 TIL that 70 to 80% of hemophiliacs being treated with blood products prior to 1985 became infected with HIV
v1LeL TIL in 1976 The Indian Government castrated over 6.2 million poor men in the name of population control.
1adxr TIL: before 2019 you could only see Platypus in Australia, captive or wild, they are very difficult to keep & breed in captivity. two at San Diego Zoo are still alive.
eovg TIL of Equatorial Guinea’s 1975 Christmas Eve massacre, in which roughly 150 political dissenters were executed in a stadium by soldiers wearing Santa Claus costumes to the tune of Mary Hopkin’s “Those Were the Days.”