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TIL Pill bugs are actually crustaceans, not insects

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KYlxB TIL freight trains running on street level in NYC killed 540 people on 10th ave by 1910, giving it the moniker "death avenue
NjGQ TIL that Britain has been in conflicts continuously for 101 years
1aVJD TIL International Women's Day was founded by the Socialist Party of America and later became a national holiday in Soviet Russia. It was predominantly a Communist holiday until adopted by the UN in 1975.
wLMxW TIL that Zhang Aiqin (Eggman), popular in meme culture for his egg-shaped head and singing Yi Jian Mei, is an actor and director.
ngrr TIL the director of M.A.S.H. had his 14-year-old son write a song for a scene because it needed to be “the stupidest song ever written.” His son wrote it in 5 minutes. It became the theme. The director earned $70,000 for directing the movie; by 1980 his son had earned over $1 million from the song.