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TIL Quaker Oats fed disabled children radioactive oatmeal

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OoxdR TIL Evidence for social hunting in Raptor Dinosaurs is basically nonexistent. Scientists believe they behaved closer to crocodiles rather than wolves as is widely accepted.
e0BJD TIL when Queen Victoria first moved to Buckingham palace, it was dirty and cold as staff were lax and lazy and chimneys smoked so much that fires were dampened down.
VBJp4 TIL Roy Orbison's I Drove All Night wasn't released until years after his death, for a Super Mario World-themed compilation album called Nintendo: White Knuckle Scorin' promoting childhood literacy in memory of a talent agent who died in a helicopter crash with Stevie Ray Vaughan
4Qnw TIL a Utah High School allowed students to use a real gun, loaded with blank rounds, in a High School production of Oklahoma! Student shot himself in head with it, not knowing that a blank can still kill at close range, and died.
a8J9o TIL 4000 luxury cars, including Audi, Porsche, Lamborghini and Bentley models, are at the bottom of the ocean after the ship Felicity Ace sank