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TIL Bed Bugs almost went extinct. Before governments started banning it, DDT insecticide was the best bed bug killer available. It drove their numbers down to near extinction. Over time, populations of Bed Bugs began developing DDT resistance. Even if we started using DDT again, they're now immune.

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VgRG TIL Dr. Dre didn’t know Eminem was white until they met in person
Z8b4R TIL Peppa Pig has been blocked from an online video channel in China after becoming associated with “gangster” subculture.
Oown1 TIL of an early variation of the jockstrap, called the "suspensory". It was developed in the 1820s as way to lift the scrotum away from the saddle. General Custer's suspensory is on display at the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Museum.
N70MM TIL that when the first trains came out, their terrifying speed of twenty miles an hour made people think they would suffocate or even have Women's Uteruses fly out.
oRJxo TIL that four young people drowned in a narrow passage in an underground cave in Provo Utah 2005. They think one person tried to turn around and the others were unable to pass her. They knew the cave was unsafe.