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TIL cockroaches are attracted to chemicals emanated from our ears and they can crawl in there and lay eggs.

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x5Yw TIL each year Canada Post receives a million letters addressed to “Santa Claus, The North Pole, H0H 0H0”. They reply to every one.
698DX TIL the Brown-headed Cowbird is North America’s most common “brood parasite,” laying eggs in the nests of over 140 host species
OGj4Y TIL that Robert Lewandowski was named by his father so it would be easier for him to travel abroad as a professional footballer.
J1B11 TIL the founder of Atari is also the founder of Chuck E Cheese
R7gP7 TIL that in 1921 private police in the US dropped bombs and mustard gas on a coal miners’ camp when they went on strike for better working conditions