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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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b96Zj TIL that Saddam Hussein was shown the film "South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut" while on trial for crimes against humanity as a form of torture.