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TIL that Japanese universities hold memorial services for animals that die in laboratory testing.

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0d7py TIL about the Vipeholm experiments, a series of human experiments where patients of Vipeholm Hospital for the intellectually disabled in Lund, Sweden, were fed large amounts of sweets, including "extra sticky toffee" to provoke dental caries.
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WkknA Dust storms on the surface of Mars wouldn’t be so damaging since the atmospheric density is so low (density of Martian air is only 1 percent that of Earth).
gMe0y TIL that Texas has it's own separate electrical grid from the rest of the US. This was done for political purposes so that they didn't have to deal with Federal regulations.
Me0oV TIL that from 1907 to 1940, American women could lose their US citizenship if they married non-American men. American men could marry whomever they wanted.