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TIL about Ensign Wasp. This small insect, occasionally found inside our houses, is actually beneficial to our homes because it feeds on cockroach eggs, thus controlling cockroach infestations :)

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kJood TIL It is estimated that 117 Billion humans have ever been born (Since 190,000 BCE). By 50,000 BCE, approximately 7.8 Billion humans had already lived and died.
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