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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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8ap44 TIL there are orange lights on taxi cabs that are only lit when the driver is in distress.
grAw8 TIL Albert Göring, the younger brother of prominent Nazi leader Hermann Göring, was opposed to Nazism, and helped many Jews escape Germany. He was shunned in post-war Germany because of his family name, and died without any public recognition.
8eRkL TIL that there's something called the "preparedness paradox." Preparation for a danger (an epidemic, natural disaster, etc.) can keep people from being harmed by that danger. Since people didn't see negative consequences from the danger, they wrongly conclude that the danger wasn't bad to start with
ykra TIL that in 1999 a fisherman found a love letter in a bottle from a soldier in WWI. He returned the letter to his widow, who was still alive.
d89YE TIL The Andromeda Galaxy is the most distant object you can see with your naked eyes, two million light years away. It is visible as a dim, fuzzy star from a dark sky site. With binoculars you can clearly see the elliptical shape of the galaxy