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TIL there is an Annual Tarantula Exhibition, where participants are judged much like dogs in a dog show. Participants are judged on shiny coats, correct proportions, an active demeanor and proper stance. In 2014, the event was attended by more than 30,000 tarantulas and their keepers.

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617 TIL that in 1980, an oil drilling rig in Louisiana accidentally broke through into an underground salt mine and ended up draining a lake, like pulling the plug on a giant bathtub.
x6l9b TIL about the movie “The Program” and a scene where college football players laid in the dividing line of traffic. Groups of teenagers tried to replicate the scene resulting in one death and two injuries. The scene was removed from all further releases of the film
8XM8 TIL Don Black, former Grand Wizard of the KKK and founder of Storm Front, was shot in the chest by Jerry Ray, brother of the assassin that killed Martin Luther King Jr.
R70ga TIL Jeff Baxter, the guitarist for the Doobie Brothers, is now an expert on military use of rockets for missile defense and is an advisor at NASA.
ApN7 TIL that in during WWII, Cambridge professor Alfie Maddock was working late into the night, and spilled the UK’s entire supply of plutonium, 10mg, onto a wooden table. He cut a hole in the table, burned it, and managed to recover 9.5mg of it from the ashes.