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Today I learned that you can’t buy Smarties(the chocolate ones)in the US.

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olLY TIL Forbes ranked Maine as the worst state for doing business for the fourth straight year
R7gx8 TIL that after a male Darwin’s bark spider fertilizes a female, he plugs up the female’s genitals with a mating plug. Using silk, the female traps the male so that he’s stuck to her genitals, saving him for when she’s hungry.
8VX4 TIL that Stranger Things was rejected 15 to 20 times by various networks before it was picked up by Netflix. Network execs had balked at the idea that the show featured four kids as the lead.
91ZQ TIL When a Canadian nuclear reactor melted down in the 1950s, Jimmy Carter was one of the Americans sent to help. His crew built an exact replica of the reactor on a Tennis court to practice disassembling it, and had to enter and take apart the reactor one piece at a time, 90 seconds at a time.
xY7b TIL Cats in America have contributed to the extinction of 33 bird species.