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Today I learned cockroaches have individual personalities.

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yapp TIL the fortune cookie was created by Japanese Americans and originally associated with Japanese food. In WWII, Japanese Americans were forced into internment camps and Chinese American manufacturers took control of the market, which is why today fortune cookies are associated with Chinese food.
5YEg8 TIL of Violette Morris, a world-class athlete in many sports. A lesbian, she had a mastectomy 'in order to fit into a racing car more easily'. She lost her license (and her chance at the 1928 Olympics) because of her 'loose morals'. She was killed in 1944 by the French Resistance.
78orZ TIL that Veronica Lake had a pilot's license which she used to fly from Los Angeles to New York when she left her husband Andre DeToth in the airplane she bought for him.
rRm94 TIL that there are no female leprechauns in Irish folklore.
e0Zo6 TIL there are no Japanese hornets in North Carolina. They are European hornets.