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TIL cockroaches are social and when they are in groups they make decisions collectively.

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NgEe TIL Humphrey Bogart’s Last Words: “I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.”
jNbON TIL that a “Kermit” is a unit of time equal to 1/100th of a day (approximately 14.4 minutes)
X0a7j TIL when researchers removed eyebrows from pictures of familiar faces, it reduced the chances of recognition substantially, and significantly more than removing the eyes themselves.
WkROA TIL Vikram Seth missed the Penguin deadline for submitting his anticipated sequel novel "A Suitable Girl" in 2017 due to suffering from writer's block as a result of the failure of a relationship. As of 2020 the novel was still unfinished
wLK01 TIL Zambia is the only country to have entered an Olympics as one country (Northern Rhodesia) and left the games as another. Zambia declared independence on the last day of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.