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TIL Fish eating spiders exist on every continent bar Antartica and can grow to have a leg length of up to 9cm long

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yVD4J TIL An estimated 300+ 1969 Dodge Chargers were used while filming the Dukes of Hazzard TV series. They went through about 2 per episode.
6W9Y TIL the University of Alabama has faculty-owned slaves buried on campus.
9DXX TIL that revolving doors were invented because of one man’s paralyzing fear of opening doors for women.
5Ra8 TIL that in 1974, Basil Brown, a 48-year-old health food advocate from Croydon, England, drank himself to death by consuming 10 gallons (37.85 litres) of carrot juice in ten days, causing him to overdose on vitamin A and suffer severe liver damage.
xNng TIL: California was building a desalination plant (makes ocean water drinkable) during a 7 year drought but stopped when it started raining again.