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TIL Canada sterilized indigenous school girls till the mid 1990s

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Gjdg TIL Hans Christian Andersen struck a friendship with Charles Dickens but wore out his welcome when his visit to Dickens’ home stretched out to five weeks
YW0A TIL that 68 people suffering from tinnitus (ringing in the ears) actually had their auditory nerves cut to stop the ringing, and more than half of them reported the ringing didn’t change - or got worse.
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