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TIL in 1996, Pfizer may have killed 50 kids in Nigeria while improperly testing experimental anti-meningitis drugs

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78Gjx TIL that the first English king to convert to Christianity was Æthelberht of Kent, following his marriage to Bertha, daughter of the Frankish king Charibert I, in the 6th Century
E44w TIL batman has beaten superman.
P18Vg TIL that during World War II, the Danish resistance movement smuggled the Jews out of Denmark before the Nazis could send them to the concentration camps, in part by going through telephone books and warning everyone with Jewish-sounding names to go into hiding.
jNoZj TIL Japanese prime minister Kantarō Suzuki narrowly escaped assassination. The bullet remained inside his body for the rest of his life, and was only revealed upon his cremation. Suzuki was opposed to Japan's war with the United States, before and throughout World War II
R7Pgl Today I learned of Mehran Karimi Nasseri, an Iranian who lost his passport and was stranded in Charles de Gaulle Airport for 18 years.