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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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9YjXm TIL That WD-40 is called WD-40 because It took Rocket Chemical Company 40 attempts to get the water displacing formula worked out.
xVROo TIL there are trees in Japan that survived the Hiroshima/Nagasaki atomic bombings, one was only 740 meters from the hypocenter that completely destroyed the castle upon whose grounds it grew.
rMy0 TIL In 1996, Mary Tyler Moore offered a restaurant $1,000 to sell her a 65 year-old lobster so she could return it to the wild. Rush Limbaugh then offered $2,000 to eat the lobster. The restaurant denied both offers and kept the lobster as a mascot.
WaW8 TIL Colonel Sanders was in a shootout with a local rival who killed a bystander. With his competitor convicted of murder, Sanders’ first restaurant lost its competition.
epBYJ TIL A Supreme Court case was held to determine if a tomato is a fruit or a vegetable