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TIL there is a species of jumping spider in Africa which specializes in feeding on blood-filled female mosquitoes.

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69ARm TIL that during the state opening of parliament in 1845, the Duke of Argyll accidentally dropped the Imperial State Crown, causing £150 (23,000$ today) worth of damage. Of the accident, Queen Victoria wrote in her diary:" [The Crown] was all crushed and squashed, like a pudding that had set down."
XJVQ TIL CNN had 50 people covering the aftermath of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. But assigned more then 400 to England’s royal wedding.
m4aO TIL that in 2003, Morocco offered to send 2,000 monkeys to assist the war effort in Iraq. They were to be used to detonate land mines
EZDo TIL that Iran has the most transexual operations in the world (after Thailand) and that the government will pay for up to half the cost.
7rR4Z TIL following a 2016 fatal shooting of a man aboard one of their trains, BART admitted 77 percent of train cameras were fake or didn’t work