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TIL the History Channel Aliens guy used to be a bodybuilding promoter.

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4X8KX TIL that approximately 70 people spent four years in Madagascar collecting and handling over 1 million golden orb weaver spiders to use their silk in the production of an 11-by-4-foot (3.4-by-1.2m) “golden” embroidered cloth, the largest ever of it’s kind.
b6evQ TIL there is a 1/25th scale version of the Suez Canal in a French lake to train ship captains.
eyXD TIL that Taylor Wilson collected radioactive material from the desert with his parents and built a working Fusion reactor at the age of 14
p88Eb TIL more Africans have access to cell phone service than piped water and electricity.
16k5W TIL there is a cult on the island of Vanuatu that worships “John Frum”, an unidentified WWII US airman who brought food and other cargo to the island, introducing himself as “John from America”