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TIL Native American women in the U.S. were apart of a forced sterilization government program. If they refused, they were sterilized without their knowledge during other routine surgeries.

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D1W0v TIL about Logorrhea, a communication disorder that causes excessive wordiness and repetitiveness, which can cause incoherency. This disorder is also known as press speech. Sometimes classified as a mental illness, though it is more commonly classified as a symptom of mental illness or brain injury.
pgNp TIL: A Swiss couple in the Maldives paid £820 to have their their wedding vows renewed in the native Dhivehi language. When the wedding video was posted to YouTube, the subtitles revealed that the minister had actually been insulting them, calling them “infidels” and their children “bastard swine”.
j6wOa TIL the Chernobyl power plant continued operating and producing power for 14 years after the infamous disaster, only fully shutting down in the year 2000.
xN60 TIL that a man named Armand Hammer coincidentally ended up on the board of directors for Arm & Hammer
MemoW TIL that Sawyer Brown is not the name of a country music singer but is the name of a band