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TIL that Axel Rose is the lead singer of AC/DC

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b6ob4 TIL about James Shields, an American Politician who has the distinction of being the only person in U.S. history to serve as a Senator for three different states; he represented Illinois from 1849 to 1855, Minnesota from 1858 to 1859, and Missouri in 1879.
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oBEJK TIL that from 1946 to 1948, a group of doctors from the United States Public Health Service intentionally infected 1,308 people in Guatemala, including children as young as 10, with various STDs. 83 people died, but the experiments were kept secret until papers describing them were found in 2005.