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TIL numerous unethical experiments have been conducted on human subjects in the US without their consent, often targeting children, the sick, and marginalized groups.

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N7Lpb TIL 1996 U.S. Cables have detailed how the Saudi Royal Family members received stipends up to $200,000-$270,000 a month, and when a US embassy economics officer visited the office responsible for the distribution, he described it as a place “bustling with servants picking up cash for their masters.”
5YPJn TIL that after moving to Springfield, Illinois, Abraham Lincoln and his best friend Jonathan Speed shared a bed for four years. Later, during the Civil War, Lincoln shared a bed with his bodyguard David Derickson any time Mary Todd Lincoln was absent from the White House.
X0oP6 TIL that, for legal reasons, in the years near 1900, New York saloons served inedible sandwiches with alcohol.
lZv1 TIL Shaquille O'Neal is a sworn in Miami Beach police officer and has arrested two men for aggravated assault. He is compensated with a $1 a year salary.
JbJm TIL a slave during the 1800s transatlantic slave trade cost 400X what a slave costs today on average