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TIL a wow player “Bradster” has 36 wow accounts and conducts raids with himself on 11 computers

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MeZn0 TIL France and Brazil had a "war" over lobsters
kJlVE TIL the largest spider ever recorded was a goliath bird-eating spider measured at a leg span of 11 inches (about the size of a dinner plate) in 1965
RdE9 TIL that in 1907 a medical doctor tried to prove the existence of the human soul by weighing people at the moment of their death.
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