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TIL China has a single cockroach colony that is larger than the world’s human population, bred for medical use

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GYOp1 TIL In Wisconsin, it is illegal to serve a customer margarine in a public restaurant as a substitute for butter (unless explicitly requested); doing so is punishable up to a $1000 fine and/or imprisonment. 97.18 (4) & (6)
ANo7w TIL about Aaron Swartz, one of the architects of Creative Commons, creator of Internet Archives’ Open Library and founder of Watchdog.net
rr9x TIL Australian police were able to indict a suspected ringleader of a child porn site by matching a freckle on his finger with one in images of child abuse.
PnQE TIL Aldous Huxley, famous writer of ‘Brave New World’ asked for LSD in his deathbed, to which his wife complied. He died hallucinating.
LXEQ TIL that above the gates of the Buchenwald concentration camp were the words “Everyone gets what they deserve”. After the war the camp became a prison site for Nazis, and the words were not removed.