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

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DVXp TIL in 2013, a 7 year-old was suspended for two days when a teacher thought that his Pop-Tart looked like a gun.
ANQbg TIL of a mother Sloth bear, with two cubs, who successfully fended off two adult tigers back to back (photos included with article)
oB9kW TIL Madam C. J. Walker was the first black businesswoman to find wild success aiming her company at creating hair care products and instruction for black women with her Anti-Kink Tonic. She was worth $8.7m in today's dollars when she died, making her the wealthiest black woman in the US at the time.
4kBw TIL each King in a deck of cards is based off a historical figurre
b6VXE TIL About Troy Leon Gregg. A convicted murderer Gregg escaped from prison on July 28, 1980 only to die later that day in a bar brawl.