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TIL That most spiders eat and remake their webs every night
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TIL of Littlewood’s Law of Miracles, which defines a miracle as a hugely-improbable, 1-in-a-million event. Assuming there are roughly eight hours per day where humans are alert, and we experience an “event” once per second, on average we should expect to experience a miracle about once per month.
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TIL over 300 species of fruit depend on bats for pollination and some fly over 100 miles/hour. Without bats we wouldn’t have cacao to make chocolate. Definitely changed my previous views on them!
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TIL A German teenager landed his aircraft on Moscow’s Red Square in 1987
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TIL the Oscar nominated documentary “Liberators” narrated by Denzel Washington, interviewing African American soldiers who liberated Buchenwald concentration camp was pulled by PBS when an investigation showed no African American GI’s played a role in the liberation of Buchenwald.
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TIL the USS Pueblo crewmen stuck up their middle finger in photos when they were captured in North Korea. They said it was a “Hawaiian Good Luck sign”. Then the TIME magazine ran a photo and wrote the real explanation. The next day the Koreans found out what it meant, and the crewmen were tortured.