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TIL last time somebody died from a spider bite in Australia was in 1979

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0KWj TIL the Cold War is credited to have started in Canada, after a Soviet Cipher Clerk defected to Canada and revealed Stalin’s attempts to steal nuclear secrets.
KD5Q TIL that to help it block porn, South Korea has a corps of volunteers who “help” the government by surfing the internet all day, every day looking at porn.
loB5N TIL that Mark Taimanov, a Russian chess Grandmaster, after losing 6-0 to Bobby Fischer in 1971's World Chess Championship Candidates quarterfinal, got his salary and his ability to leave the country taken away, aswell as being censored in the press because the Russian government was so embarrassed.
vP1vK TIL that Bullitt's Lick, a salt lick near Shepherdsville, Kentucky, was the first commercial supplier of salt in Kentucky, and its saltworks was the first industry in Kentucky.
MYgW TIL scientists believe MSG is perfectly safe. The MSG “myth” is based a single complaint from a scientist who once ate Chinese food, got sick and decided to blame it on the additive.