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TIL That most spiders eat and remake their webs every night

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kOj15 TIL Hooters once had their own airline from 2003-2006. They had regular flight crew and attendants and scantily clad Hooters Girls on every flight.
1orV TIL the title of the Italian film, Life is Beautiful, came from a Leon Trotsky quote. In exile in Mexico, knowing he was about to be killed by Joseph Stalin’s assassins, he saw his wife in the garden and wrote that, in spite of everything, “life is beautiful”.
LQVnZ TIL The opening drum riff on “Smells Like Teen Spirit” is a disco riff Dave Grohl took from the Gap Band.
kOML1 TIL - The Unreal Engine usage is royalty free, unless/until your game makes 1 million dollars.
ADdrl TIL of CSX 8888, known as "crazy eights": A runaway train that ran uncontrolled through Ohio for two hours at up to 82 km/h. Police tried to stop it by shooting at a fuel cut-off switch and it was eventually stopped by a second locomotive chasing behind it so an engineer could jump aboard.