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TIL The chances of us eating even one spider in our sleep throughout our lifetime is close to 0%

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j6Qvp TIL in 2009, Ken Basin became the first contestant on the U.S. version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire to miss the million-dollar question. He debated what he would regret more: walking away with $500K and being right or answering it and being wrong. He risked it, lost $475K, and left with $25K.
wLVro TIL four-legged animals like horses and dogs don't have backwards knees. Those joints are actually their ankles, which bend in the same direction as our ankles do.
VB4WD TIL in 1345 Ciuto Brandini, a lowly worker in the Florentine textile industry attempted to organise his colleagues into a union. He held worker's assemblies and collected tithes to be used for strike funds. After his arrest on sedition charges, his companions went on strike demanding his release
LQyQp TIL there are 4 countries left in the world where a dead person's will can be ignored if they took their own life.
l7LZA TIL that a Sig Alert was developed in 1955 because the LAPD refused to notify radio stations of traffic disruptions, requiring stations to call in, thus tying up the phone lines and requiring officers to constantly repeat the same information.