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TIL In 1940s and 50s Quaker Oats and MIT conducted experiments by feeding ceareal containing radioactive iron and calcium. This was conducted to prove that the nutrients in the oat meal travelled throughout the body. A $1.85 million settlement was made in 1998 for the victims.

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jNbwa TIL that when you fall into cold water you produce an involuntary 'gasp' response and inhalation of water due to a response called Cold Water Shock that greatly increases your chance of drowning
R7GAa TIL that Elizabeth Coleman White, whose family owned a cranberry farm, teamed up with botanist Frederick Coville to develop and cultivate the first blueberry crop. White paid people for each bush they found with blueberries that measured at least 5/8 of an inch. Coville uprooted and grafted them.
epmGk TIL that in competitive chess, if you want to adjust a piece that has been knocked over or jostled away from the center of its square, you use the French terms "J'adoube", which also means "I nominate (to a position)" and "I bestow knighthood upon (someone)".
nWmg9 TIL that about 90% of Americans consume too much sodium with the average sodium intake being 3,400 mg, more than 1000mg above the recommended limit
9YkjB TIL about Melanesia Sergeant Major Jacob Vouza who was captured by the Japanese, hung from a tree and beaten with rifles, tied to a red ant hill, bayonetted seven times in the chest and once in the throat, but still managed to chew through his restraints and deliver news of the impending attack