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TIL Quaker Oats fed disabled children radioactive oatmeal

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1aOM7 TIL That the CIA not only tried to assassinate Fidel Castro literally but also tried their hand in character assassination including using thallium salts to attempt to destroy his famous beard
nWmbB TIL: ARk Storm 2.0 (Atmospheric River Storm) will happen every 25 - 50 years, engulfing the great basin
W7KL TIL two people purchased backstage tickets to a Justin Bieber concert just to tell him his parents divorce was his fault. (Fact 71)
9w4OX TIL that around 1226, a Vietnamese prince fled Vietnam with a large number of servants. He ended up in Korea, where King Kojong of the Goryeo Dynasty welcomed him. Today about 600 households in South Korea can trace their ancestry to him
AX74 TIL there’s a species of bacteria so resistant to radiation that scientists have nicknamed it “Conan the Bacterium”