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

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4rpN TIL in Netherlands, there is an actual word for whipping out one’s penis and hitting something with it. And in 2008, it was voted word of the year.
rNA70 TIL a 1993 clan feud between 2 villages in China's Hunan province turned into all out warfare as the villagers armed themselves with homemade guns, dynamite and even cannons to settle old scores. They even constructed trenches and fortifications. After 34 hours, the police quashed the fighting.
eQbg TIL: Many white tigers in zoos are white because of forced repetitive inbreeding and almost always born with genetic defects.
vwDD TIL the Facebook co-founders were required to pay a huge amount of taxes when Facebook went public. It was around this time one of the five Facebook co-founders Eduardo Saverin renounced his U.S. citizenship and moved to Singapore. He avoided paying $600,000,000 in taxes.
kv8g TIL that PETA euthanized 95% of the animals in the shelter at its main headquarters in 2011.