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TIL since it's emergence as a potato pest in 1840, the Colorado potato beetle has developed resistance to all classes of insecticides, 56 chemicals in total

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wox4E TIL that millions of US students watched the Challenger explosion live in schools
x661o TIL Dr. James Parkinson, whose study of 'The Shaking Palsy' resulted in it being named after him, narrowly avoided being dispatched to Australia in irons after being accused of plotting to shoot King George III with a poisoned dart
4Xko TIL the “Creepy Progeria Guy” From Die Antwoord’s “Enter the Ninja” died last year. He was the oldest living sufferer of Progeria.
9Y64Q TIL long before trees overtook the land, Earth was covered by giant mushrooms
Bx4d TIL of Dave Shaw. A deep-water diver who,while trying to break the world record for diving,found the body of another diver who had been missing for 10 years.