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TIL that Quaker Oats once fed radioactive Oats to mentally handicapped children to study its effects.

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Y8J7 TIL Seth Green based Chris Griffin’s voice on the voice of serial killer Buffalo Bill from “The Silence of the Lambs,” specifically how Buffalo Bill would sound speaking through a PA system at a McDonalds.
G0r7 TIL a Massachusetts Panera Bread, which was to be the only sandwich vendor at a mall, tried to prevent a Qdoba Mexican Grill from opening on the grounds that a burrito was a sandwich.
nePAP TIL eating beets can cause pink urine
wOAo TIL that male garter snakes will mimic female garter snakes in order to be cuddled by other males and steal their heat - a process called ‘Kleptothermy’
dl09 TIL that the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was still operational and producing power up until 2000, a full 14 after the infamous reactor 4 meltdown