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TIL that Shiro Ishii, a Japanese general who oversaw Unit 731 and thousands of horrific war crimes during WWII, was given immunity in exchange for human experimentation data. He also may have gone on to do bio-weapons research at Fort Detrick located in Frederick, Maryland.

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