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TIL the Gladiator spider does not have Irises, but rather large photosensitive membranes. Consequently, it's eyes are destroyed every day at dawn and must be rebuilt every night. However, this adaption has made it better than cats or owls for night hunts

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v1pZ7 TIL of Vissarion, a Russian mystic and spiritual leader who claims to be a reincarnation of Jesus Christ. His church has over 10000 followers, of which 4000 live together deep in Siberia. Members are forbidden from using money, eating meat, and vices, all done to prepare for an apocalyptic flood.
gnmX TIL the repeated line “My life is brilliant” at the beginning of the James Blunt song “You’re Beautiful” was truly an accident. Blunt started his vocal on the wrong measure, waited a moment, and then started it again. It was left in the final recording.
Oo8YL TIL that during screenings of the 1959 film The Tingler, - a film about a creature a creature that gets inside a person’s spine, causing them to feel a tingling which can only be stopped by screaming - buzzers were placed in random seats that caused the audience to feel tingling during the film.
7rPbX TIL Frank Abagnale (Whom the movie "Catch me if you can" was made after) was imprisoned in France, Sweden and the United States has worked for the FBI for over 41 years now and has turned down 3 Presidential Pardons
OoOvg TIL only 40% of all men who have EVER lived have contributed to the worlds current gene pool. Which means 60% of men died childless. 80% of all women who have EVER lived contributed to the gene pool.