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TIL Quaker Oats fed disabled children radioactive oatmeal

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aLr0 TIL that in the past 15 years China has tortured 3700 Falun Gong practitioners to death, and from 2000-08, killed another 64,000 for their organs.
glKb TIL Giant kelp plant may grow to more than 148 ft (45 m) long at a rate of as much as 2 ft (61 cm) per day.
R59W7 TIL there is a polar bear jail in northern Manitoba, Canada where polar bears are kept isolated until they can be relocated for the safety of the residents of the town of Churchill.
gMv7A TIL that the Japanese used houseflies coated in a bacterial slurry to spread cholera in China and kill an estimated 410,000 people during WWII.
kOla4 TIL when Canada invented coloured designs on their coins, US Army contractors thought they were spy devices filled with "nanotechnology"