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

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xBRg TIL that it is still technically illegal to be a communist or support communism in the U.S.
DQ4Oj TIL The humorist Alphonse Allais was one of the first to make monochromatic paintings. His works include 'First Communion of Anemic Young Girls In The Snow' (1883) and 'Apoplectic Cardinals Harvesting Tomatoes on the Shore of the Red Sea' (1884).
b9a1p TIL of Kari's Law. In 2013 a woman was murdered in a hotel room by her husband while her nine-year-old daughter tried to call 911 four times. The calls did not go through because the hotel phones required all calls to start with 9 (making 911 9911). The law removes the need for the 9 in hotel phones
QD6p TIL that the Gatling gun was invented by a doctor who noticed that the majority of soldiers died in the civil war due to diseases not gun shot wounds
oK7R TIL Between 1995 and 2009, 2,500 women were killed for witchcraft in Northern India.