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TIL British military scientists tested mustard gas on Indians by sending hundreds of Indian soldiers into gas chambers and exposed them to mustard gas

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xMLD TIL the British army created a special force of “Facebook warriors,” skilled in psychological operations and use of social media to engage in unconventional warfare in the information age.
BrGye TIL that Hydrochloric acid tastes like Vinegar, Battery Acid, and Blood mixed together.
P1MyE TIL: "A Baby NEVER Breathes Inside A Womb" until it's Out. Inside the womb, baby gets oxygen from the mother through the placenta and umbilical cord. blood carries oxygen and other nutrients and returns waste back to the mother to be eliminated without the need for the baby to breathe air.
9YlQ7 TIL Jupiter's moon Io, the most volcanically active world in the Solar System, has volcanic eruptions so powerful that they can be seen with large telescopes on Earth
wLVN6 TIL russian luitenant colonel Stanislav Petrov went down in history as the man who single-handedly saved the world from all-out nuclear war when he called out an false allarm when the soviet missile detection system claimed six US nuclear missiles have been launched.