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TIL There have been no deaths in Australia from a spider bite since 1979

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wkpP TIL that the Captain of the HMS Beagle nearly rejected Charles Darwin as a passenger on the basis that the shape of Darwin’s nose indicated a lack of determination
nerdG TIL that the pressurized bodies of early airships were called “envelopes,” a term that persisted in aviation to later describe the ideal flight performance of an airplane. When early NASA test pilots reached higher altitude, they called it “pushing the envelope” which is where we get the phrase.
ne9WG TIL - In 399 BC, Socrates went on trial and was subsequently found guilty of both corrupting the minds of the youth of Athens and of impiety ("not believing in the gods of the state"),and as a punishment sentenced to death, caused by the drinking of a mixture containing poison hemlock.
5Y4MQ TIL The Vietnam war in Vietnam is called, the American War, or the, Resistance War Against America.
DYwP TIL that Truman, before becoming US President in 1945 advocated arming Germany if the Soviet Union was in a position to win