› added 12 years ago

103

TIL the United States government fed radioactive oatmeal to mentally handicapped children to study the effects of radioactivity.

Read more m.wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

VdaQ TIL Red M&Ms were discontinued for 11yrs due to consumer fright & were ONLY brought back because of a joke that took off.
R4vl TIL The U.S. is the world’s only industrialized nation that taxes citizens who live overseas, even if their income is generated in a foreign country and they never return to America.
WJlN TIL that 40 people die each year from shark attacks. 2500 die each year from using products intended for right-handed people despite being lefties.
jb0Q TIL “Suicide is Painless” the M.A.S.H theme song, was written by the movie director’s 15 year old son and intended it to be “stupidest song ever written”, he has earned more than 1 million dollars while his dad only made 70K total.
KY9ww TIL Francis James, an Australian publisher, was imprisoned both during ww2 after being shot down over France in 1942 and in China in 1969 for allegedly espionage.