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TIL One of the widely used dispersants used to clean up the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, Corexit, is highly poisonous to biological species, including humans. The health effects are quite adverse.

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E1jK0 TIL that mama and papa are almost universal for mother/father. But believed to be a coincidence due to language acquisition.
w1BJ TIL Pokemon was banned in Turkey, because two children tried to imitate their favorite Pokemon and fly
wEX6 TIL You can pay $65 to register your dog as an “Emotional Support Animal.” Then no landlord can turn you down.
LkBdP TIL when polygamist cult leader Rulon Jeffs died in 2002, 18 of his 20 wives married his son Warren Jeffs within a week's time.
R7Lnj TIL That in 1957 Little Richard saw a bright red fireball flying across the sky, which he took as "sign from God" to repent from performing secular music and his wild lifestyle at the time until 1962. The fireball actually was the launching of the first artificial Earth satellite Sputnik 1.