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TIL Abraham Lincoln supported colonizing blacks in South America, or sending them back to Africa.

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167A8 TIL In 1940s and 50s Quaker Oats and MIT conducted experiments by feeding ceareal containing radioactive iron and calcium. This was conducted to prove that the nutrients in the oat meal travelled throughout the body. A $1.85 million settlement was made in 1998 for the victims.
gM7Xy TIL that Shirley Temple witnessed the Soviet invasion of Prague following Prague Spring, later becoming ambassador to Czechoslovakia.
0M4y TIL in World War I, Germans used a non-lethal gas that could penetrate American gas masks and cause vomiting. When soldiers removed their masks to vomit, they were exposed to the fatal gasses already in the air.
l7ODA TIL Conan O'Brien is spelled O'Brien, and not O'Brian.
M0nb TIL That America has only been at peace for 21 years since 1776.