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TIL The weight of insects eaten by spiders every year is greater than the total weight of the entire human population

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0waYM TIL of the Burr Conspiracy, where former VP Aaron Burr was charged with treason for trying to conquer parts of the Texas Territory and Mexico to make his own country.
WkOAA TIL California has mandated all new homes to be energy neutral which is the equivalent of LEED Zero Carbon certification.
JWZk TIL middle names became a necessity during the middle ages because there were too many people with the same name and populations had risen exponentially, “The great cities on the planet earth were only a fraction of their size hundreds of years ago.”
VyED TIL the youngest Olympic athlete in Rio ‘16 was born in 2002
RlDw TIL that although cannabis is illegal in Australia there’s a town in New South Wales revolving almost only around weed selling and weed tourism where cannabis is both sold and grown openly.