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TIL of the 'Sicarii', a group of Jewish zealots who are regarded as one of the earliest known organized assassination units of cloak and daggers, predating the Order of Assassins and Japanese ninja by centuries.

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5Yk18 TIL some monkeys, like the Japanese Macaque, have the necessary vocal anatomy to produce humanlike speech, only inhibited by the fact that their brain lacks the capability to control the muscles responsible for speech.
M7odW TIL that in China, there are cockroach farms dedicated to safely producing cockroaches for human and animal consumption, as well as for medicinal purposes.
rRKLx TIL the Burke & Wills expedition of 1860, Australia’s own Lewis & Clarke. Burke, Wills and 17 others set off to cross Australia South-North, from Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria, a 3250km journey one way. Both men died. Only one, an Irish soldier named John King completed the journey back.
6eGw TIL there are are catfish in France that have learned to lunge out of the water and hunt pigeons with a 28% success rate.
0XNA TIL by the time of his death in 1937, John D. Rockefeller’s personal fortune was equal to 1.53% of the entire U.S. economy.