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TIL bed bugs have dagger penises, and a Swedish researcher decided to use pheromones to leverage their anatomical “feature” to kill one another by means of “uncontrolled shagging”.

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Lkl10 TIL that because insulin is incredibly expensive despite being the same drug discovered a century ago, there's a movement to create an open source, small-batch manufacturing process
1ar9O Til about the Tuskegee syphilis experiment conducted on 600 African American men by the U. S. public health service from 1932 to 1972 with the aim of observing the natural history of untreated syphilis
KwrQ TIL in 1968 a tower block in London partially collapsed after a woman tried to make a cup of tea.
6EXXm TIL of teenage serial killer Charles Starkweather, who killed 11 people with his 14-year-old girlfriend. After his first murder, Starkweather believed he had transcended his former self, reaching a new plane of existence in which he could commit any crime without guilt or fear of repercussion.
gK04 TIL that when the Cult Awareness Network attacked Scientology in 1990, the sect buried them in lawsuits leading to the networks bankruptcy. Scientology subsequently bought the network.