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TIL that the up to 6mm long flightless Antarctic Midge is the largest terrestrial animal native to Antarctica

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BrnnW TIL After Bill Cosby's crimes, and all reruns of the Cosby Show being dropped, actor Geoffrey Owens was forced to bag groceries at Trader Joe's due to royalties drying up. Tyler Perry discovered this and picked him up for a 10 part role in a TV show, kick-starting back his career.
oBy8A TIL that Stockbridge Police Chief William J. Obanhein, who in 1964 posed for Norman Rockwell famous Ruby Bridges painting "The Problem We All Live With", was surprisingly also the “Officer Obie” of Arlo Guthrie’s 1967 hit song “Alice’s Restaurant.”
68lX TIL vehicle clocks gain time by overcompensating for start-up time power failures on ignition, resulting in cumulatively inaccurate time keeping.
85A8 TIL Authorities uncovered Wachovia Bank who laundered $378.4bn for a Mexican Drug Cartel and was fined just $50m (2%of its profits) and no one went to Jail.
AD94B TIL A Colombian drug cartel put a $70,000 bounty on a police dog because it sniffed out almost 10 tons of drugs in 300+ operations, leading to 245 arrests.