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TIL that billions of cockroaches are being farmed in China to solve urban waste, provide medicinal treatment, develop beauty products, and feed livestock. One particular company has raised over six billion and prevents their escape by surrounding them in a moat filled with fish.

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BrGrk TIL that pure asbestos was used as fake snow in the Wizard of Oz. Here it is raining down on Dorothy, the Scarecrow and the Cowardly Lion.
b9RL0 TIL that while the punishment for an incelibate Vestal Virgin was to be buried alive, ancient Roman law forbade burials within the city. Offenders instead were entombed in small underground apartments with food and provisions, changing the legal definition to "descending into a habitable room."
rNaYy TIL HMS Discovery started out on Cook's third voyage three weeks after the HMS Resolution because the HMS Discovery's captain, Charles Clerke, had been in a debtor’s prison.
W79D8 TIL that Limestone powder is poisonous.
N7JjN TIL New research shows that men tend to like most profiles on Tinder, while women only swipe right on the people they’re actually attracted to. Men are less likely to send messages: only seven percent of men who matched with a fake profile sent a message, compared with 21 percent of women