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TIL that in the town of Omachi, Japan, there are rice crackers with wasps in them.

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Y7Z5x TIL there are, as of 2011, 41,429 native speakers of Ladin, a Romance language mainly spoken in northern Italy’s Dolomite Mountains.
OL67 TIL that the British offered the American colonies full self governance and representation in Parliament in 1778 and the Continental Congress rejected the offer.
neOjY TIL there were 53 extras in the 1993 film Philadelphia with AIDS or were HIV positive, and 43 of them had died by the end of 1994. During his Golden Globe acceptance speech for Best Actor, Tom Hanks paid tribute to the courage and humanity of one extra named Mark Sorensen.
Wkdgo TIL that parasites can manipulate their host’s behaviour to ensure their own transmission. Malaria parasites can manipulate mosquito feeding behaviours such as motivation, persistance in their feeding attempts and avidity to feed on vertebrate hosts in order to increase parasite transmission.
6EL8l TIL a 9 yr old Pakistani girl, Arfa Karim, was the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) until 2008. When she suffered cardiac arrest in 2011, Bill Gates assembled an international panel of doctors to advise the local physicians treating her and offered to pay for treatment in the U.S.