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TIL Crime Rate in the Philippines Drops Drastically During Pacquiao Fights

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p86Gb TIL about the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis, a clinical study on African American men where they went deliberately untreated by medical professionals as part of a 40-year experiment by the US Public Health Service. Cited as "arguably the most infamous biomedical research study in U.S history"
8eBwa TIL Warren Beatty and Shirley MaClain are brother-sister
Q4PE TIL: The HERC2 gene mutation found in people with blue eyes, is presumed to have only happened once. Suggesting all blue-eyed humans share a single common ancestor from which the mutation originated.
9wY86 TIL in 1918, the German Army ordered a Jewish census of it's troops to prove that Jews avoided combat. Instead, the census proved the opposite that Jews were over-represented in fighting positions and in the army as a whole.
mx8Ap TIL a British woman holds the world record for longest sneezing fit ever recorded. Donna Griffiths started sneezing on January 13th,1981 and didn't stop until September 16th, 1983(997th day). It's estimated she sneezed 1 million times in the first 365 days.