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TIL there are about up to 4000 species of cockroaches in the world, and the population exceeds 2.5 trillion roaches

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VWvQ TIL Lou Ferrigno still voices The Hulk in the two Avengers movies.
yQexX TIL that in 1945, Kodak accidentally discovered the US were secretly testing nuclear bombs because the fallout made their films look fogged
oBEKR TIL Wilhelm Rontgen used his wife's (Anna Bertha Ludwig) left hand to test his discovery, the X-Ray. After seeing her hand's X-Ray, she aptly exclaimed "I have seen my death".
oAWL TIL King Sobhuza II was the longest reigning monarch in recorded history, with a total of 82 years, 254 days (30,204) Which he began at age of 4 months.
yvkJ TIL that there was a female member of the Jackass crew who suffered a severe injury during one of the stunts, after that members of the show decided to no longer use females for stunts. Johnny Knoxville said “It was like watching your sister get hurt, and we don’t want to see girls getting hurt”.