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

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b6Ooj TIL of the Dicker-rod, a device intended to replace the first down chains commonly used to measure 10-yard distances during games of gridiron football.
mXnx TIL that a 92 yr old man has pirated over 300,000 copies of DVDs for soldiers in combat
awD9y TIL that the way an individual types on a keyboard is unique to each person. So much so that it can be used as a biometric, just like a fingerprint.
b9nd0 TIL in 2015 scientist dropped a microphone 6 miles down into the Mariana Trench, the results where a surprise, instead of quiet, they heard sounds of earthquakes, ships, the distinct moans of baleen whales and the overwhelming clamor of a category 4 typhoon that just happened to pass overhead.
YpJyA TIL that in 1485, a disease named English sweating sickness broke out causing people to sweat to death in a matter of hours. The disease claimed the lives of tens of thousands before mysteriously vanishing.