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Sweden’s shocking sugar experiment
In the 1940s vulnerable hospital patients were fed sugar to see if their teeth decayed
Lunch atop a Skyscraper
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The Tragically Hip's final gig
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Chinua Achebe’s revolutionary book Things Fall Apart
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The Battle of the Beanfield
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The world’s largest model train set
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The discovery of the first exoplanets
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World War Two’s Rome escape line
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The woman born in a prisoner of war camp
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