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TIL 107 million spiders invaded a factory and covered every surface with heavy sheets of web.

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npRr TIL that when Julius Caesar had Cato the Younger removed from the Senate for going against him, many other senators left as well. When Caesar asked one why he was leaving the Senator said he’d rather be in jail with Cato than in the Senate with Caesar
YplpZ Today I learned that "all bourbon is whiskey, but not all whiskey is bourbon" is an example of a subsumptive containment hierarchy or "is-a" subsumption, where whiskey is the "superclass" and bourbon "is-a" subclass. The shorthand for this relationship is "Bourbon ⊆ Whiskey" or "Whiskey ⊇ Bourbon".
VB7wk TIL platypuses only recently (geologically speaking) lost their teeth, with this change coinciding with the arrival of the rakali (water rat). These rodents outcompeted platypuses for hard-bodied prey, forcing platypuses to evolve dental pads and specialize in soft-bodied food instead.
GYDW5 TIL: Deep-fried pizza is a normal snack in Scotland, it is called Pizza crunch.
OoDWL TIL after taking F. Scott Fitzgerald to the bathroom and checking the size of his penis, Ernest Hemingway reassured F. Scott Fitzgerald that his penis size was normal and he should confirm by checking the nude statues at the Louvre.