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6JRY TIL Canada had to alter their $5 note to make Wilfrid Laurier look less like Spock
neRkB TIL about the Guatemala syphilis experiments, US-run non-consensual experiments on vulnerable members of the Guatemalan population. The lead physician John Charles Cutler was also involved with the more well-known Tuskegee Syphilis Study.
l7NBV TIL: A woman was elected to Congress before women had the right to vote.
edXk TIL Sesame Street did a spoof Billy Idol’s Rebel Yell with a muppet called Billy Idle and a song called Rebel L
vg1x TIL experiments were held that tested responses to potential threats from white and black strangers. The results determined that unarmed blacks were shot more than whites, even among black subjects tested. “The trend is less likely a function of active prejudice than of ambient social stereotypes.”