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TIL that the couple depicted in Grant Wood's famous painting "American Gothic" is that of a father and his daughter, not a husband and wife.

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gZNX TIL During the second World War, pharmaceutical giant Bayer used slave labour and even bought slaves from Auschwitz to use a human guinea pigs for new drugs.
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