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TIL The inventor of waterbeds tried to use Jello

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9wEAG TIL 2055 brown recluse spiders were removed from a house in Kansas. The spiders had four human roommates who had lived in their house for many years and were never bitten, despite frequent encounters with the spiders.
QNGPp TIL that 76% of Eritreans defecate in the open
nWXkd TIL about the Orgone Accumulator, a 1950s device claiming to attract massless, omnipresent substance healing energy. When the FDA was investigating the device, they noted that one purchaser, a college professor, knew it was "phony" but found it "helpful because his wife sat quietly in it for 4 hrs"
b681E TIL there exists a bat 29-33 mm in length and weighs only 2 g
DQA8e TIL of two foot fetishists who scammed people out of 10,000 socks. When jailed, they were given jobs in the laundry room cleaning prisoners' socks.