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

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xQRk TIL that Ford makes a “Drugged Driving Suit” that simulates the effects of driving under the influence of marijuana, cocaine, heroin, LSD, and ecstasy.
xVnKw TIL Bill Nye had worked alongside Christopher Lloyd in Back to the Future: The Animated Series, where he played Doc Brown's assistant and demonstrated several experiments. These segments later led to Nye getting his own show.
b68yZ TIL that in 2000, Robert Mugabe, then president of Zimbabwe, won the 1st prize jackpot in a national lottery organized by a government owned bank.
06wA TIL that when Oslo arranged the Olympic Games in 1952, a root beer company had already bought the rights to use the olympic rings on their product to make it seem more like a sports drink, so that the Norwegian Olympic Comittee to had to buy the rights back in order to actually arrange the games.
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