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TIL the world's largest cockroach is called Megaloblatta longipennis

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gZr8 TIL that a 4-year-old child was shipped through the United States parcel service for $0.53 in 1914.
AD9Kg TIL an undercover officer was led on a chase of a suspicious person. A CCTV officer used cameras to tell him where the suspect was at throughout the chase. After 20 minutes they discovered that the "suspect" was actually the undercover officer chasing himself at the direction of the CCTV officer.
web8 TIL that there is a verse in Dante’s Inferno that has no translation and no one knows what it means.
6MOX TIL of Daniel Kish, a man who despite losing his eyes at 13 months is able to navigate the wilderness, mountain bike and recognize buildings as far as 1000 feet away all completely independently through self-learned echolocation
NXngb TIL NASA's Gemini 6a astronauts & craft were saved by a fluke. At ignition an electrical plug came off shutting down the engines. Later a dust cover was found left on a gas generator in error. Had the plug not fallen off the furl flow would have been choked, triggering a perilous pad ejection.