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TIL Ballooning is a behavior in which spiders use their silk to lift themselves up in the air, using the wind to move between locations. Some spiders can move for up to 25 days or longer while traveling high up into the upper atmosphere.

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wpr1 TIL Monopoly was created “to demonstrate the evils of land ownership.”
lxYB TIL the almost final words of writer Roald Dahl, were “You know, I’m not frightened. It’s just that I will miss you all so much” to his family. After appearing to fall unconscious the nurse then injected him with morphine to ease his passing and he said his actual last words: “Ow, fuck!”
BkVL TIL of Y2k38, or the Year 2038 Problem, when a signed 32-bit integer will no longer be large enough to store the number of seconds since the Unix Epoch.
VbYD TIL that in 1994, a brewery in Oregon brewed and then froze 300 gallons of barleywine. In 2013, they bottled and sold 12oz. bottles for $2,000 a piece.
4kKGg TIL that the American version of The Magic Roundabout was Heavily Localized and Censored by the Weinstein company and named it Doogal.