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TIL Not only can flamingos fly, they can fly pretty high

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De4p TIL - Ken Jeong from the Hangover (movie) and the Community (TV) graduated high school at 16 and medical school at 24.
jNY0R TIL John Walker created the match by accident in 1826. He was scraping a mixture of dried chemicals off of a stick in his hearth and it caught fire. Against the advice of friends he did not patent his idea, leading to others greatly profiting off of his invention
D1WLD TIL that Woody from Toy Story actually has a last name: Pride
W7XAB TIL Japan during the 60s and into the late 80s was using a coagulant catalyst to treat hemophilia called Fibrinogen Concentrate by pooling plasma from donors. However, due to under-regulation, donors were not screened for diseases like Hepatitis, which resulted in thousands infected
x6y17 TIL that Henry Ford was sued for not wanting to distribute dividends to shareholders but rather distribute to employees or customers…