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TIL that during their time living underground, Cicadas bodies, and their burrows are coated in anal fluids

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WOed TIL an 8 Ton concrete VW Bug was sunk underwater off Mexico to create an artificial reef for underwater critters.
DkWv TIL - A drunk driver that killed a little girl was court ordered as part of his sentence to write a check to the victims family every week for 10 years to remind himself of the tragedy he caused.
GYwB1 TIL In 2014 the CDC once found a smallpox sample that they had lost and didn’t even know it. It was just laying around in some random storeroom.
1gBd TIL Teddy Roosevelt, when made Police Commissioner of New York City, inherited a vastly corrupt police force. In order to make sure officers weren’t slacking off or performing corrupt activities, he himself would walk their beats most nights and early mornings.
6EZdw TIL that the first person to break the 100kmh land speed record correctly predicted he would die in a Mercedes. He pranked his friends while hunting by making animal noises behind a bush and they shot him. He died in a Mercedes while being driven to the hospital.