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TIL that the world record for the fastest shoelace tying is a 15.51 seconds by Álvaro Martín Mendieta (Spain)

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ZpMGp TIL of the museum infested with the Chilean Recluse spider (Loxosceles laeta), widely considered to be the most venomous of its kind. The museum, Finnish Museum of Natural History, is located in Helsinki & no one is sure how the spider, native to South & Central America, came into the museum.
OGeV4 TIL: That the term "Milquetoast", meaning a timid person, is often mistakenly spelled as "Milk Toast". But in a weird twist, the timid cartoon character of Caspar Milquetoast for whom the term is coined, was actually named after milk toast because of it's blandness! So both terms are correct!
jNlKE TIL that Vanilla Ice used Queen and David Bowie's Under Pressure song baseline for his one-hit wonder Ice Ice Baby but didn't pay any royalties to Queen or Bowie. After facing a lawsuit, he then claimed he purchased the song Under Pressure in an interview, only to be corrected by a Queen spokesman.
ZkQB TIL Lawrence Brewer ended the last meal in TX when he ordered two chicken-fried steaks, a triple bacon cheeseburger, an omelette, fried okra, a pound of barbecue, half of a loaf of bread, three fajitas, meat-lover’s pizza, a pint of ice cream, fudge, and three root beers and didn’t eat any of it.
LQOkr TIL weather apps are notorious for their data collection practices. AccuWeather, for example, has been caught sending location data without permission, even with location sharing off. It also collects information from sensors on your device, which includes gyroscopes, accelerometers, and altimeters.