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TIL there is an estimated 10 quintillion individual bugs alive on earth right now

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BrpNb TIL In 552AD two monks successfully smuggled silkworm eggs in their walking sticks from China to the Byzantine Empire, essentially ending the silk monopolies of China and Persia, and bringing silk manufacture to Europe.
eEab TIL American fathers can be imprisoned for not having enough money to pay for their children
d80XK TIL over 500,000,000 Indians or over 1/3 of their population are considered open defecators, meaning they defecate everywhere but a toilet(streets, fields, beaches). 22.6% of Indians with access to a toilet still choose to openly defecate out of preference
BrNZb TIL Michele Miscavige, wife of the leader of the Church of Scientology, hasn't been seen in public since August 2007.
5YbKR TIL women's fallopian tubes are mobile parts of the reproductive tract. If a woman has one tube removed the remaining tube can travel to the opposite ovary to pick up eggs.