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TIL There is a entire species of roaches that look like cute green little aliens.

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YnB7 TIL that a man on death row escaped from prison the night before his execution only to be killed in a bar fight the following night.
wp48 TIL that Theodore Roosevelt vocally disapproved of putting “In God We Trust” on US currency, saying “It seems to me eminently unwise to cheapen such a motto by use on coins, just as it would be to cheapen it by use on postage stamps, or in advertisements.”
bNYQ TIL China hacked into the US military network using infected PDF files and Internet Explorer vulnerabilities to steal information about the military drone fleet
VBYZZ TIL that the Big Bang theory was first proposed by a Catholic priest
D4pD TIL After a probation violation, Robert Downey Jr assembled the exact same “Dream Team” of Lawyers that defended OJ Simpson. He lost, and served 3 years in prison.