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TIL that Russian cockroaches are leaving big cities and no one knows why

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8aW4L TIL of chemist Carl Scheele, known for discovering oxygen, molybdenum, tungsten, barium, hydrogen, and chlorine, as well as organic acids, died at just 43 as a result of the cumulative effect of exposure to arsenic, mercury and lead. Despite his discoveries, for years others were given credit.
G7OJ TIL 50% of giraffes are bisexual
loN1A TIL that a murderer will spend, on average, 15 years in prison in the U.S. before being released.
QJ9ne TIL 30-40% of Vietnamese people have the surname Nguyen. To compare; the most popular surname in America is Smith, shared by 0.8% of the population
dDkYK TIL Xijinping has published over 100 books with around 100 million copies sold, raked in at least 500 million yuan(69 million USD) of royalty by a conservative estimate