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TIL Iran’s nuclear program was launched in the 1950’s with the help of the United States.

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ymkM TIL that the movie The Departed was a remake of the Hong-Kong crime thriller Infernal Affairs, and was very loyal to the source material.
pKmZ TIL in the early 1900s Wagner von Jauregg treated syphilis patients with malaria (winning the Nobel Prize). The patients developed malaria, causing a severe fever and killed the syphilis bacteria. Then given the malaria drug quinine and cured. This was used until the development of penicillin
1a7Ed TIL that Pope Francis and Pope John Paul the Second are honorary members of the Harlem Globetrotters
kVlm TIL Irish slaves used to be shipped to America where they would be forced to breed with black slaves in order to produce “mulatto” slaves that were worth more than the cheap white Irish slaves.
7R0L TIL when John Dillinger was gunned down by the FBI in the streets of Chicago, pedestrians dabbed their handkerchiefs in his blood for souvenirs.