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TIL that the term “bug” is derived from the Middle English “bugge”, meaning beetle. Today, the word “bug” is a technical term, and describes any insect from the order Hemiptera.

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Z8dpv TIL that conjoined twins occur approximately once in every 50,000 to 60,000.
oB6Do TIL about Ewa Wisnierska, a German paraglider who survived being sucked up 32,000 feet high in a storm.
OGklg TIL the heiress to the Brach’s candy fortune disappeared in 1977 (and was presumably murdered) because she threatened to expose the “Horse Murders Scandal,” in which expensive show horses were killed to collect insurance money
AD9Xw TIL that Oklahoma's state meal is chicken-fried steak, barbecued pork, fried okra, squash, cornbread, grits, corn, sausage with biscuits and gravy, black-eyed peas, strawberries, and pecans.
LrMZ TIL naturalist Chris Packham said he would “eat the last panda if I could have all the money we have spent on panda conservation put back on the table for me to do more sensible things with.”