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TIL that In the 1940s–50s, Canada ran nutrition experiments on over 1,300 Indigenous people, including 1,000 children in residential schools and remote communities, deliberately malnourishing many to study vitamins. Historian Ian Mosby exposed the abuses in 2013.

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