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TIL the world’s largest cockroach is named megaloblotta longipennis and can measure nearly 4 inches in length.

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MeAGK TIL, in a small Japanese seaside town, there is an underwater mailbox. The town's former postmaster built it together with the local diver community to put their small town of Susami on the map and boost tourism. And, it worked. It's in the Guinness book of world records.
x6bZo TIL The man who sold the world was a David Bowie song. Three decades of my life were lived in dank ignorance 🥲
bbQE TIL of Stanley Bender who WALKED towards enemy machine gun nests and killed their occupants after standing on a knocked out tank for 2 minutes to scout out their positions
mxXjR TIL: An Afghan tank commander reported to his president that Marxists planned to attack the capital. Subsequently, the President ordered tanks to guard it. The tanks then turned their guns on the palace and ultimately killed the him. The tank commander himself was secretly the Marxist general.
rNJN1 TIL that Temptations lead singer David Ruffin died in a West Philadelphia crack house in 1991. His family claim he had $40,000 in cash on his person at the time.