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TIL the United States made it illegal to discriminate based on an individual's DNA sequence in 2008, an act that was passed almost unanimously by the house, senate, and executive branch.

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Qr5d TIL that one of the biggest slave trades in history was Barbary slave trade in which millions of Europeans were enslaved by North Africans between 16th and 19th century.
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