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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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KpaE TIL that in the 1930s New York city planner Robert Moses deliberately built a number of bridges really low so that only cars could go under it - so as to prevent blacks (who mostly used public transport) from visiting New York’s ‘pristine’ beaches
NOJE TIL that in the late 80s the Dalai Lama said people might be reincarnated as AI; “I can’t totally rule out the possibility that, if all the external conditions and the karmic action were there, a stream of consciousness might actually enter into a computer.”
yPNV TIL that gargoyles are used as waterspouts and grotesques are decorative.
yQOKM TIL Once a guy parachuted on top of the Devil's Tower but got stuck there for six days because nobody knew how to get him down.
a8Qd9 TIL that shrapnel is named after Henry Shrapnel, the inventor of the exploding cannonball.