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TIL after WWII plants were bombarded with radiation to produce useful mutations known as Atomic Gardening which resulted in todays peppermint and red grapefruit

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6E6w7 TIL that children's TV host Soupy Sales, during one of his programs, asked children to send him the "funny green pieces of paper with pictures of U.S. Presidents" from their parent's wallets and purses. He received thousands of dollars in the mail and was suspended for two weeks.
vnBr TIL actor Danny Trejo does not do his own stunts because he says “I don’t want to risk 80 people’s jobs just so I can say I have big nuts.”
xVkG1 TIL As a part of Guatemala's elite Kaibiles military program, "each prospect must take care of a puppy for the two months of training and then kill it and eat it to teach themselves that the ultimate loyalty on the battlefield is survival".
E6rx TIL: A group of scientists believe Dolphins should be treated as non-human “persons”, with their rights to life and liberty respected as they are self-aware
yVO8X TIL that no team has won the World Cup with a foreign coach. Only 2 foreign coaches have reached the final match: George Raynor of England, with Sweden in 1958, and Ernst Happel of Austria, with the Netherlands in 1978.