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TIL that contrary to popular belief, White-Tailed Spider bites are not dangerous to humans.

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PYvJJ TIL that in 1670, against a judge's instructions, a jury refused to find two men guilty. The judge held the jury in contempt; locked them up overnight without food, water or heat; and fined them. On appeal, the Chief Justice ruled that a jury could not be punished for returning the wrong verdict.
Z8OaG TIL Samuel Stanhope Smith had a theory that Africans were darker because they were covered in small freckles that when combined made a “universal freckle”
1aJJP TIL that green eyes are the rarest colored eyes in the world with only 2% of the world’s population having green eyes.
Mn9V TIL that only one-third of adults worldwide can digest milk without intolerance
79oP TIL The U.S. Air Force refused to cooperate with the production of the movie Iron Eagle since it involved the theft of an aircraft for a rogue mission against a middle eastern nation. The Israeli Air Force supplied all the aircraft for the movie.