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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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y0gl TIL in the 1989 season, Deion Sanders became the only person in the history of Earth to score a home run in the MLB in the same week as scoring a touchdown in the NFL. He is also the only person to have ever participated in both a World Series and the Super Bowl.
EgoLo TIL Ignaz Semmelweis pioneered the habit of washing hands in hospitals but was rejected, had a mental breakdown and was sent to an asylum and was beat to death by the guards (XIX century)
LQv9 TIL Eminem sent Elton John and his partner two diamond cock rings as a wedding gift.
Bgrxy TIL that Germany's two largest private emergency responders, the "Malteser" and the "Johanniter", used to be the crusader knights' field doctors in Jerusalem
wokPo TIL that Maryland in 1949 passed a law to regulate lead paint usage. In 1950, they repealed the law.