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TIL: Dave Hester is Suing Storage Wars for “Planting Valuable Items To Up The Drama”

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o5aL TIL Cockroaches are so repulsed by humans that if they’re touched by a human, not only do they run away, but they wash themselves.
rR45o TIL the Michelin Man’s ‘real’ name is Bibendum, and the reason he’s white is because he was created before carbon was added as a preservative and a strengthener to the basic rubber material. Before 1912, tyres were a gray-white or light and translucent-beige colour.
9YgZ6 TIL Charles "the Bald", king of West Francia and Italy, was actually very hairy. Many historians think it was an ironic nickname.
d8XK9 TIL that greasy pizza boxes cannot be recycled; the paper fibers cannot be separated from the oil during the pulping process
yQxJp TIL during WWII the British planned to build a giant aircraft carrier out of ice (actually a wood pulp/ice mix) to protect the convoys in the Atlantic from German U boats. The project ended owing to rising costs and the development of longer-range aircraft that closed the gap in air coverage.