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TIL New York has a memorial to Benedict Arnold's leg

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Oo0B4 TIL Chris Hansen of "To Catch A Predator" was caught cheating on his wife with hidden cameras.
NXyJN TIL Susan Weaver, AKA Sigourney Weaver, began using the name "Sigourney" when she was 14 years old, taking it from a minor character in The Great Gatsby.
gr9ry TIL the biggest species of spider is the Goliath birdeater, measuring by mass (175 g (6.2 oz)) and body length (up to 13 cm (5.1 in)), and second to the giant huntsman spider by leg span.
BgEnK TIL Mexico is named after its capital Mexico City, not the other way around.
R5bYw TIL about the CTXφ bacteriophage: a virus that lives inside the Cholera Bacteria and carries the gene that causes symptoms in cholera infection. The unusual relationship is akin to a "symbiotic parasite"