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

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4XM4N TIL The Addams Family was given their name by the cartoonist who created them, Charles Addams
wogLW TIL Carl Switzer, who played Alfalfa of the Little Rascals, was killed in a money dispute at the age of 31.
lWJa TIL That the oldest cat to ever live was a female cat called Creme Puff. She lived to a staggering 38 years and 3 months, equivalent to a human living to the age of 170 years.
0woRA TIL that in early 1940, America sent a large research vehicle to the Antarctic which, when it arrived, was unable to move in snow and ice, except when driven backwards. The vehicle was eventually abandoned and has not been seen since 1958 due to ice shelf drifting and snowfall.
rmmd TIL that two amazon booksellers using automatic algorithms to set their prices once each accidentally based their pricing on the other. The automatic programs created an upward spiral of competing prices that eventually topped $3 million for a textbook.