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TIL that since the turn of the century, cockroach populations have plummeted in some former Soviet countries for unknown reasons, with at least one species being proposed for inclusion in lists of threatened fauna

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7rkOb TIL the One World Trade Center in New York is 1776 feet tall to symbolize the founding of the USA.
l7M97 TIL there were "hundreds of thousands of instances of torture" by the French military in Algeria during the Algerian War.
ANQG4 TIL of the ancient city of Benin in Nigeria. It’s walls stretched 4x the length of the Great Wall of China. Unfortunately it was sacked by the British in the late 19th Century and there’s almost nothing left
R7V77 TIL the biggest infrastructure project in the U.S. ($512 BILLION), the Interstate Highway System, was built and championed by Eisenhower in 1956, because he thought it was virtually impossible to travel US roads after experiencing the German Autobahn in WW2 during his experience as General.
kOVam TIL in the '78 cartoon series The New Fantastic 4, the Torch wasn’t on the show because NBC’s parent company Universal was developing a live-action Torch series that never took flight. Urban legend was the Torch wasn’t around because NBC was afraid kids would set themselves on fire