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TIL Flesh eating bacteria is tied to the BP oil spill
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TIL Families of fallen American soldiers can choose among 60 religious symbols for their official tombstones, including a Wicca Pentagram and Thor’s Hammer.
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TIL - The inventor of the USB had originally intended for it to be flippable, however that idea was scrapped due to the extra cost. Despite USB becoming the standard, he still regrets that decision. "In hindsight, we blew it," he said.
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TIL about Emma Kelly, the lady of 6000 songs. When asked to go through a playbook and it was found she could sing and play piano for 6000 songs from start to finish. She achieved some notoriety after appearing in the book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
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TIL despite being dead, Agatha Christie was able to save a life in 1977 when a nurse who’d read her book ‘The Pale Horse’ that described thallium poisoning so well that the nurse could diagnose a baby the doctors couldn’t. Thallium was found in the baby, and she was given treatments, saving her
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TIL that Country Time is offering to pay All Lemonade Stand Fines / Permits