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TIL during the “Tuskegee syphilis experiment” the US Public Health Services studied the natural progression of untreated syphilis despite the “cure” being widely available

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pOAO TIL that a Gladiator sequel script had Maximus reincarnated by the Roman gods and returned to Rome to defend Christians against persecution; then transported to other periods including WWII, the Vietnam War, and finally being a general in the Pentagon. It was rejected for being too far-fetched.
7rK4O TIL the grammatical rule against ending a sentence with a proposition was first stated by John Dryden, recommended Shakespeare's works be rewritten to remove style impurities.
nW9Dr TIL it took Lady Gaga only ten minutes each to write "Just Dance", "Poker Face", and "Born This Way".
ADlpx TIL that while camels now live in Australia as an invasive species, there are records of aboriginal people first seeing them. One man, Andy Tjilari, recalled following the camels with his family, concluding that "this horse is ignorant".
mxkkR TIL of Aurora, an exascale computer that neuroscientists plan to use to make a map of the human brain, or connectome. The brain has more connections than the milky way has stars; mapping it would represent the single largest dataset ever collected about anything in the history of the world.