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TIL the emerald jewel wasp can remove a cockroach’s fight or flight response. This renders the cockroach docile, enabling the wasp to lead it around like a dog.

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7rnQL TIL Why Cilantro Tastes Like Soap. People who report that "cilantro tastes bad" have a variation of olfactory-receptor genes that allows them to detect aldehydes—a compound found in cilantro that is also a by-product of soap and part of the chemical makeup of fluids sprayed by some bugs.
oByv8 TIL Thích Quảng Đức was a Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk who burned himself to death at a busy Saigon road intersection on 11 June 1963. He didn't make a single move. Quảng Đức was protesting the persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government led by Ngô Đình Diệm.
d8n7E TIL that in the Deep South, you can dig into a jar of sweet and sour Kool-Aid pickles (also know as Koolickles).
evVD TIL Jeanne Calment, a French supercentenarian, met Vincent Van Gogh and watched the Eiffel Tower constructed.
W7dDo TIL that a Lousiana term for a kind of fish called a crappie is "sacalait", coming from a French term literally meaning "bag of milk". This isn't because crappies have anything to do with milk, but because the Choctaw word "sakli" got turned into "sac-à-lait" in Cajun French.