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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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aMjA TIL that Shasta Beverages, the company best known for all the third-tier sodas you can find at the dollar store, invented the soda can
p8QNQ TIL in World War II, U.S. Navy ship accidentally got in proximity with the Japanese ship, Someone decided to throw potatoes in panic. Japanese thought they were grenades and they threw it back which resulted in a potato fight. While they were distracted, the U.S. successfully sunk the enemy ship.
vPvj7 TIL that the country Singapore was named by a Tamil Indian king in the 11th century, and is an amalgam of the words "Singh" and "pura" meaning "Lion City"
5YyG8 TIL that catfish whiskers are completely harmless, but it's actually the fins that can cause high amounts of pain
5VxVp TIL that The Bounty which served as the pirate ship in The SpongeBob movie sank during Hurricane Sandy resulting in the deaths of two crew members