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TIL That Quaker Oats once experimented radioactive materials on mentally challenged children

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gQyW TIL When the A Bomb was dropped in Hiroshima, the light from the fireball was so intense that it melted the copper in the surrounding buildings.
BgL5e TIL that Gene Kelly was sick while filming the iconic scene from “Singin’ in the rain”.
4XBnb TIL a Harvard study found that hiring one highly productive but toxic worker does more damage to a company’s bottom line than employing several less productive but more cooperative workers.
n1EB TIL that the lead singer of Bow Wow Wow recorded multiple albums, toured the world, posed nude on an album cover, and was kicked out of the band …all before she turned 17
rRAOd TIL that the droopy lip and lazy eye of Pennywise, the clown in It, isn’t CGI; Skarsgard does it on command