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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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7JpX TIL a guy got rich by selling old farmer’s clothes to hipsters and yuppies
VOkG TIL Japan outlawed production of child pornography in 1999 and just outlawed possession of child pornography in June 2014
9MX7 TIL an Ancient Roman punishment for the crime of parricide (the killing of a parent) was to severely scourge the criminal, sew them into a stout leather bag with a dog, a snake, a rooster, and a monkey, then throw the bag into the river.
W7EZB TIL that the IRS has free online sites to do your taxes
p8gjp TIL that in the 1800s, chemists working with willow bark extracts discovered that salicylic acid is responsible for the analgesic (pain-reducing) and antipryretic (fever-reducing) effects. In 1893, a German chemist converted salicylic acid to its less acidic ester, know as Asprin.