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TIL 25000 disabled people were sterilized in Japan between the 1950s and 1990s, at least 16,500 forcibly

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wP8P TIL there’s a city in Georgia with a golf cart path infrastructure over the whole town, where the large majority of the population own golf carts and the kids grow up driving them instead of cars.
neyxP TIL the 'metallic' smell you can when handling coins etc is actually from the oils on your skin being catalysed by the metal
D5BJ TIL Director Victor Fleming took 17 year old Judy Garland aside and slapped her in the face while telling her ‘Now darling, this is serious" because she couldn’t stop laughing during the scene where Dorothy meets the Lion in “The Wizard of Oz”
O8de TIL some Muslims develop a permanent scar on their foreheads from bowing to Mecca. It’s called the “prayer bump”.
wL5N8 TIL of two identical twins born in 1933 raised separately. One raised as a Catholic in Germany and joined the Hitler Youth while the other was raised Jewish in Israel and joined the Israeli Navy. They knew nothing of each other until they met at age 21