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TIL The United States government has admitted to a past history of forced sterilization of Native American women

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Lk6Zr TIL the Wood Elves from The Elder Scrolls Series are religiously carnivorous and cannibalistic. They are also forbidden to harm any plant.
DQOxY TIL about Salzburg’s Krampus Parade, where people dress as terrifying ‘Krampuses’ to roam the streets in December, an old Alpine tradition tied to St. Nicholas.
x6odw TIL that then-dictator of Panama Manuel Noriega had a pen-pal, a 10-year-old American girl named Sarah York, who first wrote to him because she liked his hat and ended up visiting the country with her family twice.
yQKOp TIL Chris Farley named his Matt Foley character after a friend who for a time lived in a van by a river. Matt is now a Catholic priest in Chicago.
0wGkA TIL the British killed a higher rate of American prisoners during the American Revolution than the Japanese did during the Second World War