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TIL that termites are actually highly social cockroaches. Although they resemble ants or bees genetic research has places them into the Cockroach family.

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b6MP0 TIL the Cheech and Chong's "Basketball Jones" included George Harrison on guitar, Carol King on electric piano, Ronnie Specter and Darleen Love on backing vocals and a supergroup of session musicians who had worked with the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Earth Wind and Fire, Blues Brothers and others.
wLlYM TIL Brian Wells was murdered in PA in 2003 using a collar bomb in a plot involving a bank robbery, a homemade explosive collar, and a scavenger hunt to disarm it. He was surrounded by police and it was shown live on TV as "one of the most complicated and bizarre crimes in the annals of the FBI".
JW8B TIL the only tree in a 250 miles radius of the Saharian Desert was crashed into …twice
JYapv TIL There is a hot spring hotel in Japan which is in business since the year 705, operated by 52 generations of the same family
XWO8 TIL that According to ancient Greek literature, when Odysseus arrived home after an absence of 20 years, disguised as a beggar, the only one to recognize him was his aged dog Argos, who wagged his tail at his master, and then died.