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TIL the USA ran secret radiation experiments on unconsenting patients

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rRZYM TIL that President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed and issued executive order 9066 on February 19, 1942 which allowed the forced relocation and incarceration of more than 112,000 Japanese Americans in concentration camps
ep6m5 TIL Dolphins call each other by ‘name’ using a unique whistle to identify each other. They only respond to their own names, by sounding a distinct whistle back. Researchers believe dolphins are acting like humans: when they hear their name, they answer.
MenPa TIL A fatal dose of caffeine is 113 cups of coffee, but you’d die of water poisoning first.
VBLG4 TIL gyros in Greece are made with pork or chicken, not beef/lamb
E11E0 TIL that near the turn of the 20th century, the German Empire had drawn up war plans against the United States. Included were a naval blockade and land invasion.