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TIL a doctor named Chester Southam injected his patients with cancer without their consent to see how their bodies would react.

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gmb TIL that Nasa handed out 370 pieces of moon rock gathered from the Apollo missions, of these 184 are unaccounted for having been lost or stolen including one now in a Dublin landfill. They have also been offered for sale on the black market for $5m.
E1vBX TIL In the 1690s, the Scottish tried to start a colony in Panama, but the Spanish and English wiped them out.
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