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TIL that approximately 70 people spent four years in Madagascar collecting and handling over 1 million golden orb weaver spiders to use their silk in the production of an 11-by-4-foot (3.4-by-1.2m) “golden” embroidered cloth, the largest ever of it’s kind.

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R7eMj TIL legendary film director Sergio Leone and composer Ennio Morricone, whose collaboration would make the history of cinema, were schoolmates in grade school.
VBMBk TIL Sony Pictures Entertainment admitted that a highly positive review written by a critic named David Manning to the 2000 American epic historical war film The Patriot, was a product of the studio’s advertising department, as the reviewer never existed.
jjZj TIL. The fastest processor EVER was an AMD FX, overclocked to 8.429 GHZ. Liquid nitrogen and helium was sprayed directly onto the CPU to prevent it from melting.
nWnAb TIL of Slaver ants - an entire category of ants who never work, and instead capture and enslave other ants as workers
oovK TIL that, while it had 8 seasons, That ‘70s Show took place over the span of just over 3 and a half years