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TIL pillbugs are actually crustaceans and not insects

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NXGPQ TIL that New Hampshire's "Live Free or Die" license plates are made by the incarcerated
aoYA TIL that when Socrates was sentenced to death, he was asked to propose an alternate sentence befitting the crime, and proposed that they instead serve him dinner at the town hall.
rRldM TIL Linda Burfield Hazzard, nicknamed the Starvation "Doctor" was an American quack doctor noted for her promotion of fasting as a treatment; she was imprisoned by the state of Washington for a number of deaths resulting from this at a sanitarium she operated.
Pw1Z TIL there are only eight extant species of bear in the world.
6jEY TIL That an American flag hung upside down signals that one is in distress and needs help