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TIL in 1996, a cyclone with charactristics of a tropical storm formed over Lake Huron and lasted for about 5 days

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5YA78 TIL the Chinese government forbids the band Muse from playing their hit song ‘Uprising’ at their concerts in China.
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9xXm TIL some states in India had made every crime punishable by forced sterilization in the 1970’s. Some were punished for traveling on a train without buying a ticket. In total 8.3 million vasectomies & tubal ligations had been done.
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