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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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7rad7 TIL studies of Vitamin D supplements show they offer a significant chance of preventing cold & flu, while Vitamin C actually has little to no benefit.
6wrm TIL n 1973, Mao Zedong told Henry Kissinger that China had an excess of females and offered the U.S. 10 million Chinese women.
69p7 TIL that a Uranium deposit in Africa naturally developed criticality and produced fission power for hundreds of thousands of years. It was a “natural nuclear reactor”.
xVVjw TIL that Human Beings Almost Vanished from Earth in 70,000 B.C
67ol TIL that tinfoil hats not only don’t block radio waves, but have actually been shown to amplify them.