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TIL cockroaches wont eat cucumbers. This is due to a chemical in cucumbers (trans-2-nonenal) which acts as a natural replent for ants and roaches.

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0Qvp TIL 200 Indian women stormed into the court and lynched a serial rapist. 5 women were arrested but released when every women in the local slum claimed responsibility for the murder
n8Jd TIL that if all the natural disasters and epidemics in Iceland since the 18th century hadn’t happened, the population of Iceland is estimated to have been 3 times larger today than it currently is.
GYdwJ TIL while the Snellen eye-chart is the most common, created in 1862, the Mayerle eye test chart created in 1907 tested acuity, astigmatism, muscular stength of the eyes and color vision