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

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4XJBw TIL Pluto has 5 moons
MG1a TIL the ‘Miss Cleo free tarot reading’ psychic hotline was generating $24 million a month for two years straight. The Miss Cleo herself only earned $1,750 for the three days it took to film the first infomercial
vPR6R TIL about John Buettner-Janusch, a professor that went to jail twice; first for for manufacturing LSD, and second time for trying to poison the judge
7oZP TIL that in 1835, a house painter who believed he was the King of England tried twice to assassinate U.S. President Andrew Jackson at a funeral. Both guns mis-fired and Jackson, 67, beat the man with his cane. One of the people who restrained the would-be assassin was Davy Crockett.
OoJX4 TIL Matt Groening is an acquaintance of a senior researcher in NASA's Micro-11 experiment, and designed a commemorative patch for the mission. It features Homer, riding an angry bull sperm through space.