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TIL that Karl Marx earned 400 pounds from trading on the London Stock Exchange

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rNyB1 TIL It is common for insects to live in your pepper-based spice jars, including paprika, cayenne, and chili powder. The pepper family contain the nutritional requirements necessary for multiple generations of stored product beetles to successfully sustain life
E1DM7 TIL of a woman named Olympe de Gouges who advocated for equal rights between men and women in revolutionary France. She was guillotined.
rZMx TIL There is a type of Australian beetle which is threatened with extinction because the male beetles try to have sex with beer bottles instead of females
P1KPn TIL when William I, German Emperor, was crowned King of Prussia on 18 October 1861, it was the first coronation of a Prussian King since 1701 and the first of a German King since 1806
9nJp TIL famed volcanologist Maurice Krafft said “I have seen so much eruptions in 23 years that even if I die tomorrow, I don’t care”, The very next day him and his wife were killed by a pryoclastic flow