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TIL Bedbugs were almost eradicated but are on the rise in the United States.

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PDJw TIL that the pizza Margherita owes its name to Italy’s Queen Margherita who in 1889 visited the Pizzeria Brandi in Naples. The Pizzaiolo (pizza maker) on duty that day, Rafaele Esposito created a pizza for the Queen that contained the three colors of the new Italian flag.
EJn7 TIL A female ninja is called kunoichi, which means “nine plus one.” This refers to the nine holes possessed by men, and the kunoichi’s mastery of the tenth
a16y TIL the US Navy shot down a civilian airliner en route to Dubai from Tehran in 1988, killing 290 people, in Iranian airspace and waters.
l1DV TIL there is a 15 million year gap in the fossil record called “Romer’s Gap”
yrgw TIL that in 1977 a Caucasian woman found out she was designated in her birth certificate to be “Colored” in the state of Louisiana because her great-great-great-great grandmother was an enslaved African woman; she had 3/32 Negro blood in her and State Law declared anyone with 1/32 Negro blood, Negro