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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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gMe49 TIL that in the 1950s a man said to his lover that no woman could write erotica like the Marquis de Sade. In response, Anne Desclos wrote a novel that was so obscene that the French authorities tried to take the publisher to court, and Desclos kept her name secret for forty years.
xKD7 TIL Kirk Hammett from Metallica played guitar in Aerials by System of a Down
WkxoL TIL John Colter (member of Lewis and Clark expedition) Was captured and forced to sprint for his life by a group of Blackfeet Indians for 6 miles before killing 1 Indian, hiding in a beaver dam, and walking to a fort for 11 days (all while naked.)
Ml0W TIL The Catholic Church considers the Theory of Evolution to be “virtually certain”, and believes that intelligent design “isn’t science even though it pretends to be.”
BneD TIL Australia is the only country in the world to have significant net positive immigration with the US. That is, more people leave the US for Australia than vice versa.