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TIL the Emerald Cockroach Wasp injects venom into a specific part of a cockroaches brain to stop its escape/survival instinct response, lays an egg in it’s abdomen, then its larva eats the organs in a specific way to keep the roach alive before it cocoons and leaves its body.

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R7Ow7 TIL An Ossuary in Hallstatt, Austria holds over 1,000 skulls, 610 of them delicately hand painted. Due to limited space, after 15 years of burial, remains were relocated to St. Micheal's church and graves were reused. People began decorating their ancestors' skulls to make them less anonymous.
BgrLW TIL that Samuel L. Jackson is 73 years old and the highest-grossing actor of all time
kJ4AE TIL In the 1980s pharmaceutical giant Bayer discovered their blood clotting drug was tainted with the HIV virus. Instead of scrapping the drug and taking a loss they sold it to unknowinging countries in Asia and South America leading to thousands becoming infected.
jZQa TIL Siamese cats are partial Albinos. The gradual shading of the extremities is caused by a recessive gene with temperature-sensitive expression. As they age, the Spots can get darker the colder it is, but if keep in an evironment that is 98f or wamer they would stay pure white.