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TIL a study was performed testing the survivability of Spiders when sucked up by vacuum cleaners

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e0PVg TIL of the Japanese phrase "kuchi sabishii" - when you're not hungry, but you eat because your mouth is lonely
R5BM7 TIL that Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas argued that plants, geographic features, and even air deserve legal standing to sue for their own protection against modern technology and life.
yQlae TIL that Thomas Jefferson and John Adams were friends, turned bitter rivals, then friends again. Both died on the same day 5 hours apart.
nWgMb TIL that both Adams and Jefferson died on the same day, July 4, 1826, the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence
VMxd0 TIL that the Subway Sandwich rolls in the US are so sweet that Ireland ruled them too sugary to be considered bread.