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TIL Pillbugs (Roly Polies) are crustaceans, not insects.

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X0meQ TIL King George III never visited Hanover despite being its Elector and later, King, and never left southern England in his entire life.
YVZ7 TIL: When men and women work a 4-39hr a week job, women out-earn men (table 5, page 27).
KO0ww TIL In the Bible, Nimrod was a mighty hunter. But Bugs Bunny used it to refer to Elmer Fudd sarcastically, and generations of kids thought it was a synonym for idiot or moron.
awaay TIL The banana plant is a herb, distantly related to ginger. There are more than 1,000 types of bananas in the world.
XEj8P TIL That 1000's of Children in Romanian Orphanages Were Systematically Killed Due to Lack of Meeting Their Basic Human Needs.