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TIL there is a Marvel Comics character named Spider-Bitch

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4dno TIL that Christians only started believing in literal 6-day Creationism during the last 100 years.
KOvAB TIL the "Spider-Man Lizard" or the Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is found in Tanzania, Rwanda, and Kenya. Only the male is so brightly colored: head, neck, and shoulders are bright red, while the body is dark shiny blue. Males preferably have around five breeding partners and are highly territorial.
W7yaX TIL that Alarm clocks did exist before the snooze function, so there was already a standard gear setup that innovators had to work with. Getting the gear teeth to line up to allow for exactly ten minutes wasn’t possible, so they chose to set it at nine minutes and a few seconds.
OGJYL TIL that in 2001 Major League Baseball successfully voted to eliminate two of their teams, the Twins and Expos. The plan fell through after the Twins were legally obligated to honor their stadium lease and the Expos were purchased by MLB and moved to Washington DC
Oo7Xa TIL according to a 2011 lawsuit the premise of the movie Sister Act was stolen from a nun’s 1987 autobiography detailing a real life similar situation.