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TIL Canada sterilized indigenous school girls till the mid 1990s

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ep7BJ TIL about Georgia “Tiny” Broadwick, the first woman to parachute from an airplane and the first person to manually deploy a parachute after a malfunction.
xVNX1 TIL of the song "September When It Comes" written by Rosanne Cash and performed with her father Johnny Cash on her 2003 album "Rules of Travel". Johnny Cash would in fact pass in September of that year.
8ayKZ TIL the Beatles were so bad live, you could not tell one song from the other. They played their last show in 1966.
WkNoA TIL about George McJunkin: Born a slave, became a cowboy after the Civil War, and as an amateur archaeologist discovered one of the oldest sites of ancient human civilization in North America
xLe5 TIL The amount of bombs the US dropped over Laos is equal to a planeload of bombs every 8 minutes, 24-hours a day, for 9 years