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TIL: 'One of the largest human experiments in history' was conducted on unsuspecting residents of San Francisco. Over the next 20 years, the military would conduct 239 "germ-warfare" tests…

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DGkv TIL that black babies were used attract and hunt alligators.
ANaKB TIL of the Battle of San Jacinto. Just six weeks after the Texans terrible loss at The Alamo in 1836. The Texans regrouped under Sam Houston, and surprised the Mexican forces and overwhelming defeated the Mexicans. The Texans had 11 soldiers killed and the Mexicans lost 650.
VMpgB TIL: To avoid using the German sounding "hamburger" during WW2, Americans resorted to calling it a "liberty steak"
ZXma TIL radar guns don’t work in the rain so unless a cop is pacing you by driving behind you, the odds are virtually zero that you will get pulled for speeding in the rain.
lNxr TIL that the Coelacanth, a prehistoric fish more related to reptiles and mammals than modern fish, was thought to have gone extinct 65 million years ago until fishermen caught one in 1938