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TIL Flesh eating bacteria is tied to the BP oil spill

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b9W9p TIL that a common Finnish joke when the Soviets invaded was "they are so many and we are so small where shall we find room to bury them all?"
4XY7N TIL an indigenous people, the Mapuche, successfully repelled the Spanish colonizing force, costing the most Spanish lives of any conflict in the New World. The conflict is considered one of the longest wars in history
neMjG TIL that there was a real-life John Wick. Meet Chester Wheel Campbell, the king of contract killers in Detroit. Raised in a secret school of hitmen of just a dozen students, he learned the legal system, had high-profile connections, and survived 4 bullet shots (3 in the leg and 1 grazed his head)
a0pM TIL Don King brutally killed an employee that owed him $600 and only served a 4 year sentence
YApB TIL A Physicist Made His Cat The Co-Author Of a Paper Because He’d Accidentally Written “We” Instead of “I” Throughout the Paper and Couldn’t be Bothered Changing It.