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TIL Indian Removal in America was a larger genocide than the Holocaust

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e0n7J TIL 5% of patients who take the anti-depressant clomipramine experience orgasms every time they yawn
OoM77 TIL that Ulysses S. Grant not only created the Department of Justice, he also supported the Fifteenth Amendment and asked Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1871, allowing him to combat and prosecute the Ku Klux Klan.
kvZ5 TIL Thomas Silverstein has been in solitary confinement for ~29 years, which is longer than any other prisoner in the Bureau of Prisons.
DpmD TIL GlaxoSmithKline knew that the anti-depressant drug paroxetine didn’t work in adolescents and increased their risk of suicide, yet didn’t divulge the information as “it would be commercially unacceptable to include a statement that efficacy had not been demonstrated.”
4KNX TIL Griffith created the WikiScanner in August 2007, which cross-references IP addresses, company IP address ownership, and content edits. WikiScanner located violators of Wikipedia rules, such as the Vatican, Wal-Mart, FBI, CIA, Church of Scientology, Exxon, Microsoft, Apple, and the UN.