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TIL that some spiders can walk on water

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9wPPX TIL that children that live with a step-parent are up to 40x more likely to suffer from child abuse.
PYerV TIL it took 49 years to publish the first authoritative English dictionary. It took five years to publish the first part, A to Ant.
oRZPK TIL the alchemists of Alexandria developed various medicines and elixirs with drinkable gold, which they believed restored and rejuvenated the body. It is believed that Cleopatra had body treatments with gold every night, such as having baths with gold and using a face mask of pure gold.
wLNJ8 TIL that alcohol activates the same receptors that respond to heat, and does so better than actual heat. Thats why getting alcohol in a cut hurts so damn bad.
vPpD7 TIL about pishtacos, an Andean Indigenous legend. People feared Spanish missionaries (pishtacos), believing the missionaries were killing people for fat, thereafter oiling church bells to make them especially sonorous.