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TIL in the USA, you can just un-adopt children at any point if you don't want them anymore

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JYZDV TIL that in the late 1940s a team of American scientists infected 1,308 unwitting people in Guatemala with gonorrhea and syphilis. At least 83 died.
WkADN TIL over 300,000 of the 16 million Americans who served during World War II are still alive as of 2020
v1lML TIL of Takayama Ukon, a 1500s Japanese Daimyo who converted to Catholicism and is a candidate for Sainthood in the Vatican. If canonized, Takayama will be the first Samurai saint, the only Daimyo saint, and since he was exiled to the Philippines for being a Christian, the third Filipino saint.
lbwr TIL that Nessie Dunbar was buried alive. At her funeral her sister wanted her dug up to say one last goodbye. When the body was Exhumed she sat up and looked at her sister. People thought she was a ghost or a zombie that returned from the dead.
Pkpe TIL of the Persian social custom of Taarof, where every business owner is obliged to refuse payment, and every customer is obliged to insist on paying anyway, sometimes going back and forth up to 3 times