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TIL the use of pesticides to kill cockroaches is thought to have inadvertently contributed to the resurgence of bed bugs since cockroaches are one of their natural predators

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0bjL TIL Stanley Williams, co-founder and leader of the Crips, was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in 2001, after writing several children’s books urging kids ‘not to make the same mistakes he did’. He was executed in 2005 on charges of quadruple homicide.
9YkVG TIL: Despite Octopi and Squid being colorblind, they can see color by changing the shape of their pupils to accept specific wavelengths
xV8v0 TIL that the AMSAT-OSCAR 7 amateur radio satellite failed in 1981 due to a short circuit in the batteries and was thought dead. But Polish anticommunists found that it still worked when it was exposed to sunlight -- and used it to covertly send messages to activists in other cities and the West.
R7kra TIL that whale milk has the consistency of cottage cheese, contains 30-50% fat, and helps baby whales gain up to 100 lbs a day!
Brxae TIL that the Hiroshima Flame of Peace was lit on 1st August 1964 in hope of a world without nuclear weapons, and it will continue to burn until nuclear weapons are abolished worldwide