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TIL that “cob” in “cobweb” is actually an old and forgotten English word for “spiders”

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j61KN TIL The Mummy (1999) helped Universal studios gross over one billion dollars in home video sales
ZdbD TIL Fiji Water ran ad stating, “The label says Fiji because it’s not bottled in Cleveland”. Cleveland Water Dept responded by running tests comparing a bottle of FIJI Water to Cleveland tap water. FIJI Water contained 6.31 micrograms of arsenic per litre, the tap water of Cleveland contained none
wLQw7 TIL on November 22, 1963, an unidentified woman placed a phone call to a news station, telling them John F Kennedy was about to be killed. The call was placed about 20 minutes before his assassination, from the vicinity of Oxnard, California, about fifty miles northwest of Los Angeles.
4OYw TIL that it’s not just video games that people have blamed for the actions of children. In 1979 and 1990, it was Dungeons and Dragons.
5VV1B TIL that from 1968 to the early 1990s, the BVD (intelligency agency of the Netherlands) created the "Marxist–Leninist Party of the Netherlands", a a fake pro-China communist party in set up to develop contacts with the Chinese government for espionage purposes. The fake party even had newspapers.