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TIL A cockroach will fart about every 15 minutes.
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TIL we have been to the deepest parts of the ocean, only to find that our own trash beat us there.
LeWV
TIL Older people lined up to clean Fukushima radiation in Japan, to save the young from having to do so.
WkM6B
TIL of Dr. Donald Hopkins. He helped eradicate Smallpox, and is on the verge of killing another disease. He's taken Guinea Worm Disease down from 3.5 million cases a year to just 28 cases last year.
XEBAX
TIL that US embassy in Baghdad, Iraq is world's largest (almost of the same size as Vatican City). It houses its own power station, water & sewage treatment, internet and phone network, gym, cinema and sports facilities. Also has 6 apartment buildings for employees.
N71d8
TIL that World War II WASP pilot Katherine Dussaq married the inventor of the polygraph machine and was herself a renowned forensics expert who ran an all-women detective agency. Katherine died in a service-related crash in November of 1944, only weeks away from the disbanding of the WASP.