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TIL After the 1929 stock market crash, the US government deported millions of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans regardless of citizenship

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46vR TIL - Portugal decriminalised drugs and replaced the penalty with therapy
4X5wX TIL the Adoration Of The Magi is an unfinished work by Leonardo da Vinci commissioned by a Florentine monastery in 1480. Consistent with his proneness to abandon projects, he eventually grew bored with it, simply left, and moved to Milan. The monastery paid Filippino Lippi to complete it instead.
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