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TIL during WWII Minority U.S. Soldiers Were Picked For Mustard Gas Experiments

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7MQr TIL that, in China, there are hundreds of primary schools that are sponsored by tobacco firms, and they have such slogans as “Talent comes from hard work – Tobacco helps you become talented.”
nWanr TIL there are no skeletons on Titanic wreck site only pairs of shoes where people died.
8RAK TIL that, when asked to comment on the contentious grammar law which states that one is not to end sentences with prepositions, Winston Churchill replied, “That is nonsense, up with which I shall not put.”
6dx8 TIL that an orangutan named Fu Manchu repeatedly escaped from his cage at the zoo using a key he had fashioned from a piece of wire. Every time his zookeepers inspected him, he hid the key in his mouth.
aw0gL TIL Chinese courts convict more than 99.9 per cent of defendants