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TIL about Chester Southam, a doctor who injected senile patients and convicted criminals with cancer cells to see wether it would spread to them, and tried to cure terminal cancer patients with West Nile Virus

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0wAnj TIL in 1981 a man named Roger Fischer had an idea for a volunteer to have ICBM launch codes put in their chest cavity. In the event of an emergency, the volunteer would carry a knife to be killed with. It was meant to force the personal killing of one man to start the impersonal killing of millions.
PX8E TIL 15 girls perished in a school fire in Saudi Arabia because morality police outside would not let them exit because they weren’t wearing a veil.
ANRPn TIL about Belphegor's prime, 1000000000000066600000000000001, a palindromic prime number with 666 at its heart and 13 zeros on either side. It was named after one of the Princes of Hell, who was charged with helping people make ingenious inventions and discoveries.
Ex5d TIL in 1985 there were 13 billionaires in the US. Today there are over a thousand.
R7mEl TIL that what we mean by fonts is actually called a typeface. Fonts are the different weights, styles and other (thing bold and italic) representations of a particular typeface.