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TIL that in the 60s, the US military secretly sprayed (possibly radioactive) experimental chemicals, like zinc cadmium, on thousands of residents of poor neighborhoods in St. Louis, without their knowledge or consent, to see what would happen

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yWJX TIL that in Alaska, it’s been legal for adults to possess and use small amounts of cannabis since 1975.
NQnM TIL according to a UK psychiatry study, 3 out of 11 personality disorders were more common in executives than in criminal psychiatric patients. The business people were described as “successful psychopaths and the criminals as unsuccessful psychopaths”.
lojBG TIL vegetarianism is such an old concept that up until 1850, vegetarians were called Pythagorean because the cult of Pythagoras was entirely vegetarian
RKB8 TIL after the Italian Armistice during World War 2, an Italian Division chose to resist the Germans they were stationed with who demanded they give up their arms. This ended with the Germans massacring over 5000 of the Italians including those who had surrendered.