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TIL Cockroach farming in China is a growing industry, with millions of insects raised for food, animal feed, and pharmaceuticals.

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pBLG TIL that many films/TV shows, including Gremlins, Desperate Housewives, The Munsters, Beethoven, Deep Impact, and Buffy The Vampire Slayer, as well as music videos by The Offspring and P. Diddy, were all filmed at the same backlot street set at Universal Studios Hollywood, using the same houses.
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VMV5G TIL on the Friday that Fight Club was released theatrically in the US, Rosie O'Donnell revealed on her TV show that she had already seen it while urging her viewers not to watch it and spoiling the ending.
X0Myr TIL of people of Jewish decent that served in the German Army in WW2. They ranged from Generals who were declared to be Aryans, waffen SS soldiers who hid the fact knowing their fellow soldiers would probably kill them to ordinary soldiers basically hiding from being sent to concentration camps.
WaW8 TIL Colonel Sanders was in a shootout with a local rival who killed a bystander. With his competitor convicted of murder, Sanders’ first restaurant lost its competition.