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TIL that wealthier urban and suburban neighborhoods are associated with larger and more fertile spiders due to the higher quality of food and green spaces.

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awgML TIL Astronaut Gus Grissom was accused of prematurely blowing the hatch on the Liberty 7 space capsule, causing it to sink. He maintained the hatch blew on its own without his intervention. He later died in the Apollo 1 capsule fire because of a complicated hatch that would not blow quickly enough.
gr7pL TIL: The first Transatlantic telegraph cable was laid in 1854 and the first communication took place in 1858
l171 TIL that on this day in 1959, Five hundred thousand American steelworkers went on strike, closing nearly every steel mill in the country.
eYNb TIL that there is a one-room hotel near Antwerp Belgium that is a gigantic scale model of a human colon and anus. Originally created as a work of art, it is realistic in every way including color, veins and a gigantic puckered sphincter.
XO8Q TIL that actor Robin Williams has been to Iraq 5 times, and to Afghanistan 6 times to visit the troops