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TIL that the wood louse (roly poly, pillbug, potato bug) is not an insect, but a crustacean. We don’t eat them like lobster or crab because they taste like urine.

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PQQO TIL during the Second World War, Rolex’s German founder let British POWs order any watch they liked, and then pay for it whenever they wanted to.
WnK8 TIL Woodie Guthrie’ copywrite claim to “This Land is Your Land” was for 28 years and stated “anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don’t give a dern.” Today multiple organizations claim copyright for the song.
4mW5 TIL A Yale student snuck a card for the fictional book, the Necronomicon, into the university library’s card catalog.
161AP TIL there was a serial killer in early 1900s New Orleans known as the Axeman who claimed in a letter that he would spare anyone playing jazz music.
oBlGR TIL Re:Scam.org, an AI email bot that will respond to phishing scammers realistically to waste their time and hopefully reduce the number of scams they can perform on others.