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TIL the brains of cockroaches carry some serious antibiotics, strong enough to slaughter bacteria that have evolved resistance to the hospital antibiotics we humans use

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7rYd7 TIL That George R. R. Martin uses a computer with DOS and WordStar (a wordprocessor from the 80s) to write his Games of Thrones serie
5YwP9 TIL of the Manicouagan Reservoir, a 60 mile diameter lake in Northern Quebec created by a meteorite impact. The island in the center has a larger surface area than the lake itself, and it has been hypothesized that it was one of at least five impacts in a single event 200 million years ago
X0PlX TIL Camel Cigarettes once made a series of ads exposing magicians' secrets.
gBPD TIL that the CIA museum has a smoking pipe designed to receive radio messages and relay them silently to the user’s ear by sending vibrations up the user’s jawbone.
yVPrM TIL the U.S. Pizza Team competes in four skills: largest dough stretch, fastest pizza maker, freestyle acrobatics, and fastest box folding.