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TIL the world’s largest cockroach is called “Megaloblatta longipennis”

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XE6BR TIL about Anesthesia Awareness which is a rare but extremely frightening event where the patient is unintentionally responsive during their surgical procedure and can later recall the episode. It can lead to PTSD leading to nightmares, night terrors, flashbacks and even suicide
gMmP7 TIL The term “scientist” was coined in the 1830s to describe Mary Somerville. A woman. Because the usual term “man of science” didn’t apply and she wasn’t just a physicist, geologist, or chemist - she was all three.
gBMD TIL in 1987, a 43 year-old man took a teenage girl out into the Californian woods to search for Bigfoot. He came back without her, saying a Bigfoot had abducted her. The man never was convicted, went free, and the girl is still missing to this day.
ANOE7 TIL The largest illegal dump in Europe is the Triangle of Death in Naples, Italy. As the landfills filled up in the 1990s organised crime increasingly dumped and burned trash in this area, driving in garbage as far away as Venice. The area's population has significantly higher rates of cancer.
4XWK5 TIL that in languages that read from left to right, the left hand page and the right hand page have names- Verso and Recto, respectively.