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TIL Mealworms are able to consume various forms of plastic, and can eat Styrofoam containing a common toxic chemical additive with no ill effects, and still be safely used as protein-rich feedstock for other animals.

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xKR5 TIL a guy diagnosed with cancer was told he had 6 months to live. He went back to the doctors 10 years later to tell them that he’s still alive only to find out that the doctors who diagnosed him were all dead. He died 102 years old.
yEpV TIL: In the late 1960s, all plants from a specific species of bamboo sprouted flowers at the same time, despite being separated by thousands of miles. Shortly after, all the plants died. The next mass flowering is predicted to come in 2090, when the bamboo completes its 120-year cycle.
yQLrp TIL that The Hunt for Red October (1990), Patriot Games (1992), and The Sum of All Fears (2002) are all apart of the same film series, the most recent of which was Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014) starring Chris Pine.
MmVW TIL a Human Nutrition professor ate mainly Hostess snack cakes for two months to prove That in weight loss, pure calorie counting is what matters most – not the nutritional value of the food.
WKRB TIL: Health care in Mexico is described as very good to excellent while being highly affordable, with every medium city in Mexico having at least one first-rate hospital. Because of this, some California insurers sell insurance policies that require members to go to Mexico where costs are 40% lower