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TIL House centipede is good for house pest control (especially if you have bed bugs)

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VM98Z TIL about Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan, a hotel that has been running for over 1300 years, ever since it began in 705. It has been ran over 52 generations by the same family, which still operates it today.
b6yj0 TIL the creator of the children's game series Putt Putt, Shelley Day, went to prison for fraud in 2005.
ZpvlQ TIL about Juicero, a company that made a $699 juicer requiring Wi-Fi, an app, and QR-coded produce packs that had to be scanned and verified before juicing. Journalists found that the packs were easily squeezeable by hand, yielding the same results as the juicer. The company shut down shortly after.
JYGjQ TIL, Steve Gerber, the creator of Howard the Duck lost the rights to Marvel but took him back in spirit by convincing Marvel to do a crossover with a new character of his and added a scene where Howard gets cloned and the real one leaves and changes his name to Leonard while a clone stays behind.
MajW TIL There is a Japanese word,ごっつん盗, that translates to, “To steal a car by gently rear-ending it and having a friend jump into the car and drive off after the driver gets out of their car to yell or bitch at you.