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TIL people in Germany and France used to eat cockchafer beetles. They were made into a soup and could also be candied. This practice stopped when the beetles' population steeply declined from the use of pesticides.

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e0nmn TIL that in Peru in 2007, a meteorite impact caused a "mystery illness" that turned out to be widespread arsenic poisoning from the meteorite evaporating contaminated groundwater
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