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TIL that the first large scale human trial for the birth control pill was conducted on Puerto Rican women in the 1950s. These women were unknowingly participating in the clinical trial and deaths of participants were not investigated.

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gMMLD TIL Billionaire Steve Jobs never gave money to charity
VB6bB TIL Since Adolf Hitler renounced his Austrian citizenship in 1925, he was stateless for about seven years until he got his German citizenship in 1932. The delay was due to several attempts to get him a government job that would have granted him citizenship falling through.
nWywY TIL the emergency number in Mozambique is 119, or in other words: 911 backwards.
LvYp TIL that a photographer taking pictures of air pollution unknowingly captured pictures of a couple committing suicide
Ypbr TIL that Hitler planned to build a railway for trains 6m wide, 7m high and 500m long, with top speeds of 200kph; the trains would be fitted with a restaurant, cinema, swimming pool, barbershop and sauna, and seat up to 4,000 passengers.