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TIL: Large brains of tiny spiders overflow into their legs | Human World | EarthSky

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rRK9M TIL that Erik the Red discovered Greenland and called it Greenland despite being predominantly ice to attract people and lure them into settling there. He did this after being exiled from Iceland for manslaughter.
kG54 TIL that Digg, a social news aggregator, was extremely popular and almost sold to Google for $200M. Instead, they began to censor their own community and make arbitrary management decisions that drove the community away to newer, less-oppressive sites like Reddit
aw59N TIL modern-day airplanes can withstand an intense amount of turbulence. The last time turbelance alone caused a plane crash was 1966.
0xKp TIL that one of Franz Ferdinand’s descendants is trying to reacquire his estate. This estate was seized by Czechoslovakia after the end of World War I, but this descendant argues that this seizure was unjust since Franz Ferdinand’s children weren’t members of the Habsburg royal family.
xx50 TIL that every article in the star wars wiki is written in past tense because it’s in “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…”