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TIL that firefighters in Pana, Ill. found a cockroach infestation so massive that the city council agreed that the best option was to burn the house down

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m4rM TIL the word “spam” used to only refer to the canned meat until a Monty Python sketch associated it with terms such as “repetition” when it showed a restaurant menu listing mostly spam-related meals.
d8elK TIL A Chinese psychiatrist was giving kids with "internet addiction" electro-shock treatment and psychiatric drugs in prison like conditions. The Chinese World of Warcraft community were outraged and started an online campaign to have him discredited.
O58a TIL Winston Churchill covered up the “Katyn Massacre” of 20,000 poles by the soviets to pursue the alliance, assuring them that “We shall certainly oppose vigorously any ‘investigation’ by the International Red Cross… Such investigation would be a fraud and its conclusions reached by terrorism”.
vVR TIL that the difference between a “fast” metabolism or a “slow” one is about 200 calories a day (e.g. one poptart)
xVm05 TIL Shaggy's "It Wasn't Me" was originally never intended to be released as a single. When Hawaiian DJ Pablo Sato downloaded the album from an MP3 site, he played the song on American radio the next day. Within a couple of days, it was the number-one requested song.