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TIL Mealworms can eat Styrofoam

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yVYml TIL about Ol Doinyo Lengai: A unique and active volcano in Tanzania that erupts relatively low temperature natrocarbonatite lava that is black when liquid and dries white.
PdLO TIL that there is an entire industry to help students cheat to get their degrees by having papers written by unemployed professors. If my students are using it, they don’t get caught for plagiarism because the papers are new. The company blames “the academic system” for being corruptable.
n1dY TIL Eleanor Roosevelt regularly refused Secret Service protection, and instead traveled with a .22 Smith and Wesson on her person.
p8o7O TIL 20,000 pounds of cheddar was stolen from a Wisconsin semitrailer in 2016. The perpetrators are suspected to be part of a crime "ring," and as of 2017, have yet to be caught.
X0YQR TIL a number of American's developed cancer or died early as a result of the 1945 Trinity test in New Mexico