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Today I learned cockroaches have individual personalities.

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VMYKZ TIL of Richard Lawrence, who in 1835 attempted to assassinate President Andrew Jackson at a funeral using two pistols shot point blank. When both misfired, the President severely beat him with his cane, after which he was wrestled into submission by Davy Crockett.
AK9a TIL an Australian research institute ran a four-month study “to answer the age old question, ‘Where have all the bloody teaspoons gone?’”. Results: 80% of the teaspoons in the study disappeared, with the half life of the teaspoons calculated at 81 days
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gO1A TIL Legalizing direct-to-consumer car sales would reduce the average price by over $3000
mxwYv TIL the Karen conflict is one of the world's "longest running civil wars", so far lasting 71 years.