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TIL that the Yazidi minority in Northern Iraq have survived 72 attempted genocides

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xwAB TIL a guy stranded in the desert dismantled his broken down car and made a working motorcycle out of it.
rnly TIL the engineer of the Kalka-Shimla Railway in India killed himself after miscalculation of where two halves of a tunnel would meet
X9w6 TIL the United Stated Conducted Human Experiments in Guatemala Between 1946 and 1948. Doctors Infected Soldiers, Prostitutes, Prisoners, and Mental Patients With Syphilis and Other STDs.
P14oO TIL David Bowie and Dennis Hopper once smuggled cocaine into a psych ward for Iggy Pop while wearing spacesuits
GWp7 TIL Mars, inc denied the use of M&M’s to be used in Steven Spielberg’s ET, describing the character as a “creature whose appearance falls somewhere between stray dog with mange and syphilitic genitals”