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TIL Flesh eating bacteria is tied to the BP oil spill

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oRZNR TIL: Agent Orange was produced by Uniroyal Canada in Elmira, Ont., a small farming community just outside Waterloo.
nWy9B TIL that Eratosthenes, the man who calculated the circumference of the Earth, also calculated various dates of the Trojan war.
YBXZ TIL that Scientology has their own prison, where senior members are locked up for months to years.
noXo TIL Manta rays frequently leap out of the water, sometimes to heights as high as 9 feet and then belly flop back into the water. This flop has been reported to sound as loud as a gunshot. It is still a mystery as to why they do this.
loGmV TIL There’s a paradoxical relationship between doctors’ strikes and mortality rates: when doctors go on strike, the mortality rate either stays the same or goes down. Of the 5 strikes studied, none increased the mortality rate.