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TIL pillbugs are actually crustaceans and not insects

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j6yXn TIL The fella who invented the two-liter bottle was also CEO of Apple!
5oaR TIL that Bobby Sands, a member of the Provisional IRA, was elected to British Parliament while in prison. He was never seated and died after 66 days of hunger-striking.
E1Y1x TIL In 80 years, the world's phosphorus reserves are expected to run out. This will make fertilizer increasingly harder to produce, thus reducing the world's global food supply if nothing is done to reduce the use of phosphorus.
rONw TIL A Japanese artist named Hananuma Masakichi created a wooden sculpture of himself so life-like, people couldn’t distinguish between the statue and the artist. He even included his own hair, nails, and teeth!
xDd5 TIL words and phrases that are often misspoken or misspelled in a certain way (e.g. “for all intensive purposes” instead of “for all intents and purposes”) are called eggcorns, with the term itself being an eggcorn for the word “acorn”.