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TIL one of the largest cockroaches in the world is called Megaloblatta longipennis

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a8g60 TIL Oscar De Priest was the only african-american congressman during this three terms in congress from Illinois 1929 to 1935. He was the first black congressman from outside the south, and the first to be elected to congress in the 20th century.
xV6MB TIL a bog is acidic & a fen is alkaline; a swamp has trees and woody plants & a marsh has other types of plants
njwP TIL that the Titanic is the only ocean liner to ever be sunk by an iceberg.
4XyNg TIL The oubliette of Leap Castle in Ireland was discovered to have had over 150 skeletons and may have been in use as recently as the mid-1800s.
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