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TIL that British military scientists conducted secret experiments during the 1930s and 1940s in which hundreds of Indian soldiers were exposed to mustard gas at Rawalpindi, now in Pakistan

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JYnyv TIL that musical prodigy Alma Deutscher was the subject of her linguist father's language experiments. He never told her the sky was "blue" in an effort to understand why ancient cultures never used the term for the sky. Her perceptions and name for the sky, "white", were reported in his 2010 book.
W7n8 TIL That Jack Daniels will sell you a barrel of whiskey for about $10,000.
kJPr4 TIL Lee Harvey Oswald was court martialed while in the Marines for accidentally shooting himself in the elbow with an unauthorized handgun
WAxY TIL That The US Beat China In A World Math Championship For The First Time In Twenty Years Last Year
X0A68 TIL In 1929, the author of Peter Pan gave the copyrights to the books to Great Ormond Street Hospital. In 1988, the hospital was given unique right to the royalties from Peter Pan in the UK for perpetuity.