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TIL there's a species of Australian grasshopper that's made up of all-female clones

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xVRM0 TIL WebCrawler launched in 1994 and is the oldest surviving search engine on the web today. For many years, it operated as a metasearch engine. WebCrawler was the first web search engine to provide full text search.
78DLL TIL that Norse people celebrated Yule by burning logs for up to 12 days, feasting until they burned out, and believed each spark represented a new pig or calf for the coming year
NYvP TIL there are more tigers privately owned by US citizens than in the wild worldwide.
dDNV7 TIL about Ship Money, a tax on coastal areas of England to promote ship building in times of war. King Charles I tried to levy it in peacetime and to extend it to the inland counties of England without parliamentary approval. It provoked fierce resistance and helped to trigger the English Civil War.
Y5eB TIL that the idea of every fingerprint being completely unique is false, as there’s evidence of fingerprints so similar they were able to misguide sensors.