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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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b6X19 TIL that the orca star of Free Willy died of pneumonia a year after his own release IRL as a result of failure to adapt to the wild
jNEVE TIL Scooby Doo did a parody of The Blair Witch Project that was aired only once on Cartoon Network
R7XVa TIL that in January 2005, the US Navy’s submarine, USS San Francisco, traveling at full speed under 525 feet of water hit an uncharted undersea mount, resulting in one death and many injuries.
dX6r TIL that some people theorized that the problems that initially plagued the Hadron collider were the result of time travelers sabotaging the operation in order to prevent some unknown future problem.
PYjXn TIL that Skylab, the American space station of the 1970s, was initially stocked with 420 towels.