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

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78B7 TIL a junior high basketball game ended with a score of 139-8. The winning team’s points were all scored by one player.
W1K4 TIL that US military suicides surpassed combat deaths in 2012
wog1o TIL a veteran acrobatic pilot was killed during the filming of the first Top Gun when his Pitts S-2 camera plane failed to recover from a spin and plunged into the Pacific Ocean
LQdDV TIL There's a period of the history of Earth (1.8 to 0.8 billion years ago) that is called the "Boring Billion" due to nothing much happening geologically, climatically or (mostly) evolutionarily.
ZkPo TIL that for her role of Amy in Gone Girl, Rosamund Pike gained and lost 13 lbs 3 times to play the character at different times in her life. She consumed hamburgers & malts to gain the weight & exercised with a professional boxer for up to 4 hours a day & ran 5 miles (in 42 minutes) to lose weight