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TIL: The Velvet Ant (“Cow Killer”) is not an ant, but actually a wingless wasp which can squeak

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wLJj7 TIL Sisuqo and Bob Newhart almost co-starred in a 2001 NBC sitcom together.
px7O TIL people drown in the dead sea because of how difficult it is to roll over while floating face-down.
b9gZp TIL A Japanese admiral participated in one of the last 'Kamikaze' attacks hours after Japan's surrender, so he would die 'honorably'. He was shot down.
9mYG TIL of David Kootook, a 14 year old Inuit boy who survived for 23 days in -40 degree weather after a plane crash in the Arctic. He refused offers by the pilot to eat the body of a fellow passenger and died of starvation 23 days later. Upon rescue, the pilot said “Welcome to the camp of a cannibal.”
neawP TIL that Sheila Vogel-Coupe, age 85 as of 2014, was believed to be Britain’s oldest working prostitute. She became a sex worker at the age of 81. She serviced an average of 10 clients a week and charged upwards of $420 an hour.