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TIL there is species of spider named Aptostichus barackobamai, more commonly referred to as the "Barack Obama trapdoor spider"

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7AQL TIL There was a girl who ate almost nothing besides chicken nuggets since she was 2.
yQlep TIL that 80 years ago in this day Georg Esler tried to kill Hitler with a time bomb. For climate reasons Hitler left the building early than expected and the bomb exploded only 13 minutes after his departure. Everything could have been different.
xJv5 TIL Gary Burghoff, who played Radar O'Reilly on MASH, has a visibly deformed left hand, which ironically would have made him unfit for military service. They tried to hide it throughout the series’ run by having Radar hold a clipboard or other hand-obscuring prop in virtually all his scenes
XEZL8 TIL The thief of America’s first bank robbery who stole the sum of $162,821, was caught because he deposited the money back into the same bank.
PYyWO TIL that it was widely assumed that infants felt no pain and they routinely underwent major surgeries without anesthesia up until infant pain was formally recognized in 1987.