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TIL Pluto, by law, is still a planet in New Mexico whenever it passes over the state.

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a9y TIL that Henry Ford was a Nazi anti-Semitic supporter and was the first foreigner to be decorated with Nazi Germany’s Grand Cross of the German Eagle.
LkPm0 TIL that in the 1940s, US funded doctors went to Guatemala to test STD treatments by deliberately infecting 1,308 locals between the ages of 10 and 72 with gonorrhea, syphilis, and chancroid, all without their informed consent. The US doctors gave only 52% of subjects any treatment. 83 died.
WkaG8 TIL The Slovak government had to overturn an internet driven decision to name a bridge after Chuck Norris.
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