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TIL of the “American Plan.” From the 1910s through the 1950s, thousands of American women were detained and forcibly examined for STIs.

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E1WKw TIL that marine plants, such as seaweed and algae, produce 70-80 percent of the oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere
X0Ok6 TIL in the 80s there was an all-girl skater gang called the Hags
XErOR TIL of Radivoke Lajic, a man in Bosnia whose house has been hit by meteorites 6 times. He thinks aliens are targeting him.
a8rRJ TIL Nightshade, a new, free downloadable tool created by computer science researchers at the University of Chicago which was designed to be used by artists to disrupt AI models scraping and training on their artworks without consent Nightshade seeks to “poison” generative AI image models.
JYnZm TIL that Kent released a cigarette in 1952 with a filter made out of asbestos (branded as a "micronite filter"). they sold 13 billion of these cigarettes before being discontinued in 1956 and they are suspected of causing many mesothelioma cases