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TIL Flesh eating bacteria is tied to the BP oil spill

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P1Vln TIL an African Grey Parrot named Alex was the first non-human animal to ever ask a question when he looked in a mirror and asked “What color?” learning the word “grey”
781xL TIL the greatest recorded temperature change in a 24 hour period is 103 degrees. On January 15, 1972 the temperature in Loma, Montana went from -54 to 49 degrees.
69oMm TIL of the Pierce Arrow armoured anti aircraft lorry deployed by the Royal Marine Artillery in the First World War. Used from 1915 to 1917, it shot down over twenty enemy aircraft, having take out the first of these within two days of deployment.
OoPL6 TIL Daniel Radcliffe has a mild form of the neurological disorder developmental coordination disorder (dyspraxia). The motor skill disorder sometimes prevents him from doing simple activities, such as writing or tying his own shoelaces.
oBLDr TIL: Victor Goldschmidt, the founder of modern geochemistry carried a Cyanide pill as a last resort if captured by Nazi's. When a colleague asked him to create one for him, he stated, "Cyanide is for chemists; you, being a professor of mechanical engineering, will have to use the rope."