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TIL that triple cooked chips were invented in 1993 by Heston Blumenthal

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m8rx TIL that in the 50s & 60s the American gov forcibly removed Native American children from their parents and put them up for adoption or into institutions, in order to have them assimilate into “white culture”.
e05PD TIL that rats given anti-anxiety medication will be less likely to help other rats that are trapped (because the free rats don't feel the trapped rats' anxiety)
j4oX TIL in 1980, the Soviet Union refused to host the Paralympics claiming that none of their citizens suffered from disabilities.
kJkNm TIL today marks the 30th anniversary of the beginning of the Rwandan Genocide, when 1 million people were killed in 100 days
XEggD TIL modern mariachis were invented by the Mexican Government in the 1930s to drum up tourism