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TIL you don’t need a law degree to be a Supreme Court justice.

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9wO7B TIL the use of pesticides to kill cockroaches is thought to have inadvertently contributed to the resurgence of bed bugs since cockroaches are one of their natural predators
VMkNZ TIL Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Boston are the largest US cities with a shrinking population, all of them having peaked in 1950.
R5oml TIL that in a recent study - microplastics were discovered in every human placenta and arteries tested
r5e4 TIL in the 1960’s oilmen would shoot flaming arrows to relight gas tower flames.
6bDW TIL Grigori Perelman, a Russian mathematician, successfully proved the Poincaré conjecture (one of the seven Millennium problems) in papers made available in 2002 and 2003. When his work survived review, he was offered a Fields Medal and the $1,000,000 Millennium Prize, both of which he turned down.