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TIL how a bad thing turned out good. A story about Vince D. Donile a Blue Angel pilot in 1969

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4kM6w TIL An aboriginal man with a tomahawk was the first Australian to capture a Japanese POW during WWII. He snuck up to a downed pilot and took him to the military base on a neighboring island.
jNPKp TIL 200 Ugandan women who earned $1.20 a day breaking rocks into gravel, donated over $900 to U.S. victims of Hurricane Katrina
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.
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