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TIL that US doctors infected Guatemalan prisoners with syphilis in secret experiments.

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QJK4M TIL that 60% of the geysers on Earth are in Yellowstone Park.
BgbWe TIL South Australia has 80% of the world's opals
7lb TIL Two Men Murdered 15 People Over the Course of a Year in Order to Sell the Bodies as Cadavers for College Students to Dissect.
E1G7o TIL that pumpernickel, a type of rye bread, is named after the Germanic word "pumpern" meaning flatulent, and "Nickel" a reference to to Old Nick (a familiar name for Satan). The dense bread is hard to digest, causing excess flatulence. Hence pumpernickel means "the devil's fart."
KNpw TIL That once the Queen is deemed unfit to serve due to old age or disease, worker bees cluster tightly around her body until she dies from overheating, a process known as “cuddle death.”