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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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PYPRZ TIL the split gill mushroom has over 23,328 distinct sexes, but they can't all successfully mate with one another. Each sex can only be fertile with 22,960 other sexes.
e0Wa6 TIL about the Pareto Principle [80/20 Rule] 80% of results come from 20% of causes. The interesting thing is that it is present in almost everything. 80% of rainfall comes from 20% of cloud types. 80% of people crash their car because of 20% of causes. Simulation is hard-coded.
vGGx TIL: There is a Harvard/Oxford educated doctor that has been running a free TB/HIV clinic in Port au Prince since the 2010 earthquake and she receives no compensation for her work.
yQW6e TIL Yoko Ono, Nina Simone, Quincy Jones, Willie Nelson, Carol Burnett, James Brown, Joan Rivers, Gene Wilder, Julie Newmar, Roman Polanski, Conway Twitty, Larry King, and Emperor Akihito were all the same age, born in 1933.
NXPJP TIL German pianos have an H key