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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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kOp0g TIL that the last German Kaiser, Wilhelm II (born 1859), lived to see the rise of Hitler and the first two years of WW2, dying in 1941. When Hitler took Paris, he wrote a telegram, writing "Congratulations, you have won using my troops."
MJx7 TIL that when a cockroach touches a human it runs to safety to clean itself
8abvK TIL that the font GILL SANS was created by and named after Eric Gill, a famous British designer who admitted to sexually abusing his daughters, sisters, and a dog.
b9Dap TIL M&M's were created for the US Army so that soldiers could carry chocolate in tropical climates without it melting
avdA TIL Abe Lincoln once threw a man by the “neck and seat of his pants” for attacking a supporter during his first speech for Illinois General Assembly.