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TIL the Peruvian government sterilized 200,000 Indigenous Americans in the 1990s.

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Zp81p TIL Leo Marks, WWII cryptographer, discovered that Dutch intelligence was compromised when coded messages came through with zero typos or grammar errors. The grammar Nazis were, in fact, actual Nazis.
N7aGJ TIL the last execution by guillotine was carried out in France in 1977, Beheading as a form of capital punishment was outlawed 4 years later
lbBV TIL Elon Musk chose to attend Queen’s University instead of University of Waterloo (Canada’s leading engineering university) because “there were girls [in Queen’s]”
R916 TIL in 1980, Maureen Wilcox bought lottery tickets in Massachusetts and Rhode Island and both tickets won in the wrong state
4Xnmb TIL Ice Cream, Macaroni and Cheese, French Fries, and Champagne were all popularized in or introduced to America by President Thomas Jefferson