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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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dDMRK TIL virtually all communion wafers distributed in churches in the USA are made by one for-profit company
0wYJN Today I Learned that Veggietales wasn't originally going to have vegetables as the characters. Phill Vischer simply needed character models that were easy to animate in the early days of computer animation. Vegetables didn’t require animating arms, legs, or hair like humans or animals would.
R7QG4 TIL the United Kingdom's average height declined during the industrial revolution due to poor working conditions and increasing inequalities in society
KO64J TIL that every “peace symbol” you see has a meaning that has been lost on many people– it was originally designed by combining the semaphore letters “N” and “D,” which stood for Nuclear Disarmament.
lo49K TIL that, as children, James Garner and his two brothers were beaten by their stepmother, who Garner later attacked and choked, to prevent her from killing him in retaliation, she left the family afterwards