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TIL President Harry S. Truman’s administration purposely infected the people of Guatemala with syphilis after WW2.

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5YlBn TIL the owners of the Titanic demanded huge sums of money at the time to return the bodies of ship's crew to their grieving families.
x6vek TIL that only 0.1% of paracetamol/acetaminophen overdoses end in death and it takes 4 to 18 days for death to occur.
KYL8w TIL Mark Ruffalo woke from a dream that told him he had a brain tumor. He got a CT scan the following day confirming he had a benign tumor behind his left ear. The tumor was removed, and he is deaf in that ear as a result of the surgery.
DoZv TIL Schools in Texas are still required by law to teach that homosexual conduct is a criminal offense, despite anti-sodomy laws being overturned by the Supreme Court in 2003.
KONpG TIL Kazuhiko Torishima, editor of Dr. Slump and Dragon Ball, only started working at Shueisha (publisher of Weekly Shōnen Jump) because he wanted to work on Japanese Playboy. Torishima was disapointed when Shueisha started sending him boxes of manga as he had never worked with manga before.