, Robert L. Scott Jr., a retired USAF Brigadier General and WWII flying ace, in 1980 at the age of 72, gained national attention by hiking the 1,900 miles (3050 km) of the Great Wall of China. The journey took 94 days and he sustained himself with 1,200 oatmeal raisin cookies. historynet.com/col-robert…
The Quaker Oats Company and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology agreed to pay $1.85-million to settle a federal lawsuit over an experiment in which radioactive oatmeal was fed to boys at a state institution in the 1940s and 1950s. chronicle.com/article/mit…
The World Porridge Making Championship, held in Scotland, awards a main prize of the "Golden Spurtle" for the best traditional porridge made with only oatmeal, water and salt en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wor…
Quaker Oats 35% Less Sugar Oatmeal contains 35% less oatmeal per packet, despite being the same price as the regular version latimes.com/food/sns-dail…
Quaker Oats fed radioactive milk and oatmeal to unsuspecting special needs kids under the guise of a science club in order to find out how beneficial certain nutrients were in their oats. smithsonianmag.com/histor…
In the 1940s and 50s MIT scientists fed unsuspecting boys oatmeal laced with radioactive materials at a school for mentally disabled and abandoned boys latimes.com/archives/la-x…
In Qauker Instant Oatmeal with fruit pieces, the strawberries and peaches are actually dehydrated apples, and the blueberries are dehydrated figs. quakeroats.com/products/h…
The oatmeal raisin cookie was originally labeled as “health food” despite being almost equally fattening and sugary as chocolate chip cookies. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oat…
"Porridge" is actually a generic term for boiled grain foods including oatmeal, maize, congee, grits, polenta, kasha, gruel, etc en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Por…
The "strawberries" and "peaches" in Quaker Instant Oatmeal are actually flavored dehydrated apples. The "blueberries" are flavored dried figs. quakeroats.com/products/h…
From 1946 to 1953, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and the Quaker Oats corporation fed 73 mentally disabled children with radioactive oatmeal to track "how nutrients were digested". The children were not told what they were being fed but instead that they were joining a "science club". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Une…
The Manhattan Project secretly tested the effects of radiation on its own citizens, including injecting pregnant women and feeding schoolboys radioactive oatmeal. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The…
There is a military specification for making chocolate covered oatmeal cookies and chocolate covered brownies... it is 23 pages long... everyspec.com/MIL-SPECS/M…
In Massachusetts, 57 developmentally disabled children were fed oatmeal laced with radioactive tracers in an experiment sponsored by MIT and the Quaker Oats Company. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The…
The Fernald School for the "feeble minded," part of America's Eugenics movement, forced children to perform most manual labor, including cutting up the brains of retarded people for scientific study. The boys were also given radioactive oatmeal in a study for Quaker Oats. cbsnews.com/news/americas…
The crisp and crumble differ from the cobbler in that the top layer of the former may also include rolled oats made with oatmeal. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cob…
Wardenclyffe Tower, the site of Nicholas Telsa's attempt to create a transcontinental wireless telegraph station, was purchased in 2013 by "a non-profit organization supported by The Oatmeal." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War…
The inventor of the single-serve butter pat, Sanford Redmond, also invented Australia's predominant sauce packet (Americans may remember it from Oatmeal Swirlers in the 90s) and helped design a high-speed camera for the Manhattan Project. nytimes.com/2000/07/30/bu…
Eating High Glycemic foods (white bread, instant oatmeal, etc.) causes excessive hunger and can increase your chance of overeating additional calories by 81%. isitunhealthy.com/are-low…
The US Military published a 26-page standard, MIL-C-44072C, with ultra-precise and extremely specific directions for mass producing oatmeal cookies and brownies. scribd.com/doc/31878583/M…
That, in Terminator 2: Judgement Day, the sound that the T-1000 makes when transforming was created by putting a condom over a microphone and dipping it into oatmeal. imdb.com/title/tt0103064/…
Quaker Oats was part of an experiment feeding children radiation to "prove the nutrients in Quaker Oatmeal travel throughout the body." news.google.com/newspaper…
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