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TIL after WW2, the Japanese researchers who experimented on humans to develop bio- and chemical weapons were given immunity by the US in exchange for their data. Victim accounts were then dismissed as communist propaganda. But, Americans found the data "amateurish" and subsequently returned it.

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a8MrN TIL that on December 7, 2012, hospital nurse Jacintha Saldanha took her own life, just three days after being deceived by a prank phone call orchestrated by two Australian radio DJs. The call was part of a radio stunt related to Prince William's pregnant wife, Catherine, Princess of Wales.
N8jP TIL that although it was decided by early Christians not to be put in the bible, there is a gospel called the Infancy Gospel of Thomas. This gospel is about Jesus’ childhood and has stories of Jesus cursing other children and making them die and in one case making another child wither into a corpse.
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