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TIL: Daddy Long Legs have penises, therefore they are not spiders. Although they are arachnids, they are more closely related to the scorpion.

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vBG4 TIL that the minimum player salary for Major League Soccer (MLS) is $35,125.00. Last year, 62 players, or 11% of the league, earned that much.
pYY1e TIL Celine Dion once said she got along more with older children and adults while as a child, preferring to not go to school due to being bullied; her brother would eventually introduce 12-year-old Celine to 38-year-old Rene, who would be her career manager and eventual husband.
okoY TIL that during the Cold War, Chairman Mao held meetings in his swimming pool to embarrass Nikola Khrushchev, who had to wear a floatie as he couldn’t swim. Khrushchev felt insulted and the incident furthered the deterioration of relations between the Soviet Union and China.
PYE7O TIL: The New York Transit authority dumped over 2,500 subway cars into the Atlantic Ocean.
wo7OY TIL videographer Alex Kirstich was shooting a school of 5-ft Humboldt squids 30 ft below the surface in the Sea of Cortez when he was attacked by 3 of them & dragged down to a depth of 70 ft, while being bit in the back of his neck. He lost a camera, a necklace, & his dive computer, but he survived.