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TIL Anderson Cooper once saved a Haitian boy from looters after the 2010 earthquake

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56wQ TIL The central nervous systems of the smallest spiders fill up almost 80 percent of their total body cavity, including about 25 percent of their legs.
d8k9Q TIL in 1746, a Swedish king tried to prove coffee was unhealthy by having one man drink large amounts of coffee and his identical twin drink the same amount of tea everyday for the rest of their lives. Both twins outlived the doctors in charge of the experiment and the king himself.
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