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TIL The Baltimore Wastewater Treatment plant had a 4-acre spider colony with over 107 million spiders.

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BwDK TIL as John Adams lay dying, he remarked that Jefferson had outlived him, unaware that Jefferson had died hours earlier, on the 50th anniversary of the original Fourth of July
neMpW TIL 17-year-old JFK was admitted to Harvard with a 5-sentence-long essay.
wLmJo TIL The famous "War of the Worlds Panic" where rural dust bowl Americans tuning in post intro took to their rifles and bunkers after tuning in to the radio play, never happened. It was invented by newspapers of the day to make people distrust radio, and keep trusting the paper.
epM86 TIL The Beatles cartoon was a historical milestone, as it was the first weekly television series to feature animated versions of real, living people.
NXaGM TIL of Malört, a liqueur almost exclusive to Chicago, described as "like swallowing a burnt condom filled with gasoline." Drinking a shot is considered a Windy City rite of passage.