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TIL some spiders can live without food OR WATER for over two years. Years.

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X0jAE TIL: A 2018 study in the UK found that 70% of women in workplaces were bullied by other women known as "Queen Bees". They are women with aggressive behaviors such as gossiping, exclusion, and stealing friends/partners to get ahead. One consultant describes them as adult "Mean Girls".
78yNL TIL the Aztec language Nahuatl (and varieties from the Uto-Aztecan language family) are spoken by over 1 million people, some of whom only speak that language
xVebw TIL "Motivated Reasoning" is why you can't change someone's mind on the Internet. Techniques include identity-protective cognition (being dismissive of uncomfortable ideas) biased assimilation (only remembering supporting ideas) and biased information search (staying in a bubble).
GAK67 TIL: There was a study spanning 18 years that compared sexual activity across social demographic variables. It found that internet usage, race, religion, etc did not matter as much. The biggest factor for men was employment. Men who were students or unemployed were likely to be sexually inactive.
kOkKW TIL that Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, eldest brother of Claus, one of the primary architects of the July 20 plot to assassinate Hitler, was also executed for his own participation. He was strangled and revived multiple times, and the whole process was filmed for Hitler to view later.