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TIL the USA ran secret radiation experiments on unconsenting patients

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v170j TIL Ty, the manufacturer of Beanie Babies, was one of the first businesses to use the internet to engage directly with its consumer market. This was a major contributing factor to the popularity of Beanie Babies.
LkWWd TIL that "celebrity psychiatrist" Dr. Isaac Herschkopf manipulated a patient into cutting off his family, giving him his home, signing over his bank account, and amending his will to leave everything to the doctor's wife. Yet Dr. Herschkopf still maintains his medical license in New York City today.
MedZ7 TIL about the plunge for distance, a short-lived olympic swim event where competitors jumped from the edge of the pool and floated motionless as far as possible. It was criticized as "not an athletic event at all" since competitors "merely throw themselves heavily into the water and float along".
W7r7X TIL Emilia Clarke read the words that revealed her character Daenerys Targaryen's fate 7 times in a row thinking "What, what, what, WHAT!?" because it "comes out of fucking nowhere." She also cried & went on a 5-hr walk that put blisters on her feet. Eventually, she stands by Dany's "Mad Queen" turn
b9eGj TIL that a group of bears is called a "sleuth of bears". Also: a sounder of boars, clowder of cats, mob of cattle, coalition of cheetahs, bask of crocodiles, pod of dolphins, bed of eels, cast of falcons, business of flies, band of gorillas, boil of hawks, kindle of kittens, barrel of monkeys