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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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Y6aZ TIL Apple deliberately deleted competitors’ music from iPods and iPhones from 2007 to 2009.
Z1Vv TIL: In 2007 a meteorite impacted near the village Carancas (Peru) leaving a 14 m crater and knocked a guy from his bicycle. Later, villagers and livestock got ill from poisonous material vaporizing from its surface.
1aNlO TIL that Nellie Bly, the author of the famous exposé Ten Days in a Mad-House, wrote 11 novels that were thought to be lost to time until they were rediscovered and published earlier this year.
9w47X TIL that during the production of the film “Roadhouse” (1989), all the actors did their own stunts. Actor Sam Elliott recalled: "All the actors, as far as I know, did their own fighting. I fucking got the shit kicked out of me for the entire film."
69RYY TIL about Zinaida Portnova, a teenager who poisoned Nazis in WWII.