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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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awBoA TIL 9/11 survivor George Mironis visits FDNY Ladder Company 10 House, across from the memorial, once a week and leaves a candle in a glass jar just outside the firehouse. He does this to honor a firefighter he passed in the North Tower stairwell on 9/11 who did not survive.
P14KL TIL The Amazing Jonathan, late comedian and magician, was married to, and managed by, Anastasia Synn, a transhumanist, biohacker, and cyborg rights activist. She holds the Guinness World Record for most technological implants in the female body and has the largest magnet ever implanted in a person.
Zp5DR TIL in 1964, a country changed names during the Olympics. It entered the Olympics as Northern Rhodesia, a British protectorate, and left as Zambia, becoming fully independent on the day of the closing ceremony. The athletes marched in the ceremony with a new placard featuring the word "Zambia".
VBG00 TIL Bret Easton Ellis recorded an unusable audio commentary track for the DVD release of "The Rules of Attraction" under the influence of cocaine and tequila. The DVD was instead released with commentary from Carrot Top, who had nothing to do with the making of the film.
GAkL7 TIL Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire. The university was founded in 1096, over 300 years before the founding of the Aztec Empire in 1428.