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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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aJA TIL That physicists won the Nobel prize in 2010 for peeling graphene off pencils with scotch tape
E14oW TIL that in 1475, Turkish law stated that it was legal for a woman to divorce her husband if he does not provide her with the daily quota of coffee.
d8YdZ TIL In the 1780s an Indian king named Tipu Sultan was the first person ever to effectively use Iron cased rockets against the British East India Company. Later in 1800s British adopted this technology and fought with it in Napoleonic wars
pYPG8 TIL about Pantone 448 C, the world's 'ugliest color'. It is sometimes used for cigarette packaging, after market researchers determined that it was the least attractive colour.
Oobg6 TIL that "Antidisestablishmentarianism" was a movement in opposition to attempts to remove the Church of England as the official state religion of the UK