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XEJ1k TIL that researchers at the University of Manchester have trained a regal jumping spider named “Kim” to leap on demand for a robotics research in 2018. First time a spider has been successfully trained to jump.
LkgLm TIL that a Portuguese diplomat, Aristides de Sousa Mendes, saved more than 30000 people in WW2
vgYB TIL that the village of Badbea in Scotland was so windy children and animals had to be tied to posts or rocks to stop them being blown away.
MkKB TIL hunter-gatherer societies had approximately five-hour workdays
4XaJN TIL that the Krakatoa explosion that occurred over two centuries ago was the loudest sound ever recorded in history.