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Til that 150k+ First Nation kids were removed from their homes, over a span of 100 years, in order to "get rid of the Indian problem in Canada"

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BQ6x TIL that Walt Disney’s last words were “Kurt Russell” for reasons completely unknown even to the actor himself.
PjrO TIL of the Gigantopithecus, an ape that reached 3 meters (9.8 ft) in height and weighed more than half a ton.
x8pw TIL that in 2007 NFL player Braylon Edwards promised 100 Cleveland public high school students that if they kept a 2.5 and performed 15 hours of community service he would pay for their college. They did, and Braylon Edwards kept his word. He spent approximately a million dollars.
N7nvM TIL According to Charmin makers Procter & Gamble, a 1978 survey found that Mr. Whipple was the third best-known American, behind former President Richard Nixon and evangelist Billy Graham. (And ahead of then-president Jimmy Carter.)
RynQ TIL that Germany has the lowest birth rate in the world while the highest birth rates are in Africa with Niger at the top of the list