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TIL that while typing on your mobile phone you can slide on the space bar to move the cursor.

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X1rR TIL that there is a spider in Australia that makes a rectangular web, holds it in it’s hands, puts spots of feces on it to act as sights, then throws the web around it’s prey.
Rpww TIL the pre-Meiji Japanese government differentiated believers and non-believers of Catholicism by making them step on pictures of the Virgin Mary and Christ. Those found guilty were often executed by being thrown into a volcano
d8dvZ TIL Magda Szubanski, the old lady married to the farmer in the film “Babe,” was actually 34 years old when the movie was made.
D1M1e TIL that German folk singer Sibylle Baier recorded her album Colour Green during 1970-73 but wasn't released until 2006, over 30 years later, when her son found the tapes.
PnRV TIL the color orange was named after the fruit. Before the English-speaking world was exposed to the fruit, the colour was referred to as “yellow-red” (geoluread in Old English) or “red-yellow.”