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TIL the Manhattan Project was leaked 1500 times during WWII

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eprJ4 TIL the world’s largest cockroach is named megaloblotta longipennis and can measure nearly 4 inches in length.
m14yR TIL that in Japan, Denmark and Uruguay, it’s legal to desecrate the national flag. However, it’s illegal in those countries to desecrate other nations’ flags.
awLXL TIL about mass suicides; occurring as early as 206 BC in Astapa to as late as 1946 in Bali, Indonesia. These mass suicides, which can reach a toll of thousands, are a form of political protest of defeated groups against their aggressors and are regarded as an honorable act of heroism.
aLr0 TIL that in the past 15 years China has tortured 3700 Falun Gong practitioners to death, and from 2000-08, killed another 64,000 for their organs.
VMoam TIL that when a bald eagle loses a feather on one wing, it molts a matching feather on the other wing.