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l7MjV TIL about the “Rawalpindi Experiments” where British Soldiers tested the effects of mustard gas on 20,000 Indians in the early 1930s
QJp66 TIL: While there is aphantasia, the inability to produce mental images, there is also the even lesser known hyperphantasia, the ability to produce extremely vivid mental images.
nWxB TIL Canada has the worst human rights record in terms of mining companies operating overseas.
m1xWE TIL that from 1860 to 1870 winners of The (British) Open received the Challenge Belt. The Belt was red leather with a large silver buckle, with silver panels of golfing scenes and medallions denoting the winners and their scores. It was replaced by the Claret Jug in 1872.
oRj0o TIL they dropped millions of purpose-bred sterile flies from planes every week in Panama from the 1960s until 2022 to keep a flesh eating parasite from getting into the U.S. cattle supply.