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TIL Flesh eating bacteria is tied to the BP oil spill

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rRkZy TIL that Ronald Reagan was deeply affected by the film The Day the Earth Stood Still, to the point that at his first meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev, he suggested that the world might put national differences aside in the face of an alien threat
1ddW TIL Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, is a doctoral student and has co-authored a paper on microRNA in HIV genomes.
PYVOO TIL Hundreds of skeletons are scattered around a site high in the Himalayas, Roopkund lake, in India
mnwR TIL 90% of clothes donated to U.S. charities are sold to textile recyclers. 75% of THAT are recycled". 25% are sold on the street markets in Africa at about 500% mark-up. This partly crushes the African textile industries because they can’t make new clothes as cheap as cheap old American clothes.
PYj9L TIL a study shows that people who drink moderate amounts of alcohol have a ~20% lower risk of dying from heart disease when compared to those who don't drink.