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TIL In the 1940s, U.S. Researchers Infected Hundreds of Guatemalans With Syphilis. The Victims Are Still Waiting for Treatment.

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mYbO TIL there’s a website called freerice.com that asks you vocabulary questions, and donates 10 grains of rice through the World Food Programme for every question you answer correctly.
aDRb TIL: ABC News went undercover in the Better Business Bureau, and registered the terror group, “Hamas” as a business, paid them $425 for an A- rating.
x61b TIL the most expensive photo ever sold was $4.3 million. It was of a river, and it was photoshopped….
v1Anj TIL Sharks have been on earth for longer than trees have.
6EAlm TIL an Assistant US Attorney investigating sexual predators & drug rings was found stabbed 36 times, hundreds of miles from his home. Some wounds were on his back, his hands shredded, his scrotum & neck sliced & there was an unidentified fingerprint in his car. His death was ruled suicide.