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

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ZvWB TIL that a woman who died in 2009 had at least 1400 descendants (11 children, 150 grandchildren, 1000 great-grandchildren, great-great-grandchildren)
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