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

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ZpAep TIL that Rockstar Games felt that the Skatt Brothers song "Walk the Night" was so essential to GTA IV's soundtrack that they hired a private investigator to fly to Orem, Utah and track down the lead singer Sean Delaney's surviving relatives (he died in 2003) to secure the rights of the song.
pYy9b TIL that the British are descended from a tribe of Spanish fishers
kJ0E1 TIL Rolex is owned by a charitable foundation and pays no corporate tax
6DkX TIL in 2014, US law enforcement took $4.5 billion from citizens who were never charged with a crime; more than US burglars stole in the same year
8ePdX TIL that there were only 21 days between the first atomic bomb test on July 16th and bombing Hiroshima on August 6th in the summer of 1945