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TIL nobody's done the intricate calculations to find the average distance between a human and a spider.

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wQY8 TIL that humans spend 13% of their lives not focusing on anything in particular.
oBeaW TIL About Vincent Louis Gigante, an American mob boss who feigned insanity for 30 years to escape prosecution. Called “The Oddfather” and “The Enigma in the Bathrobe” by the press, he often wandered the streets of New York’s Village in his bathrobe and slippers, mumbling incoherently to himself.
P1YyJ TIL: The Pirate speak in many films comes from a single actor talking like the fishermen contemporary to his childhood home in early 20th century England
VMbMm TIL when Jonas Salk, who developed the first protective agent for polio, was asked about who has the patent, he responded by saying "Well the people, I would say, there is no patent" and then laughs saying "could you patent the sun?"
LkDKm TIL - When Mount Everest was measured in 1854 the exact value was 29,000 feet. Despite being accurate, Andrew Waugh published the value as 29,002 feet to avoid the public assuming it was merely a rounded estimate. Thus he was known as "the first man to put 2 feet on top of Everest".