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TIL About the “Cicada Brood X” and its 17-Year Life Cycle

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WklWd TIL the world's largest spider by leg span is the Giant huntsman spider, which can reach up to 30cm/1 ft.
jNGon TIL that blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan's first studio recordings were with a Texas high-school band called "A Cast of Thousands," which featured as its lead singer Stephen Tobolowsky, who later became a highly-recognizable character actor best known as "Ned Ryerson" in the film 'Groundhog Day'
7rRr7 TIL that George HW Bush's eldest daughter's intended name was Pauline Pierce Bush, until his mother pointed out that her initials would be P. P. Bush which "would never do"
69vm8 TIL Meredith Burgess stars in both the Rocky films and Santa Claus the Movie. I've watched SCtM every Christmas eve morning for about 35 years and the Rocky films are my favourite movies, only realised this morning.
bpjN TIL the inside of a cucumber can be 20 degrees cooler than outside - ‘cool as a cucumber’.