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TIL: One in four American cowboys were black
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TIL the world’s biggest spider is the “Goliath Birdeater” has a leg span the size of a child’s forearm, weights as much as a puppy, can live for 25 years and has fangs strong enough to pierce skulls.
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TIL Star Trek and Mission Impossible and other hit shows were produced by Lucile Ball and her husbands production company.
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TIL blue light scatters the most in the atmosphere and is therefore least visible by aircrafts at night. 1939 German engineers knew that and installed blue lights on their emergency vehicles, to be spotted less easily by bombers. This is the origin of the blue emergency light.
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TIL of "poop" pills - capsules containing only bacteria from donors' poo which are used to treat gut infections. They have no scent, taste and are as effective as traditional fecal transplants while being much cheaper.
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TIL An old dump in California has been turned into a beach of polished sea glass by the ocean