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TIL the authorship of a 1724 book called A General History of the Pyrates containing biographies of contemporary pirates has remained unknown in spite of numerous attempts by historians to discover his identity.

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PkYV TIL The world’s most venomous spiders are the Brazilian wandering spiders which has the most active neurotoxic venom of any living spider. These large and highly aggressive creatures often enter human dwellings and hide in clothing or shoes. When disturbed they bite furiously several times
4XWyg TIL Mao Zedong was personally struck by the loss of his own son, Mao Anqing, during the Korean war, a war he had effectively started. North Korea and China commemorated each’s support in their struggle against the United States and there is a Chinese soldiers cemetary north of Pyongyang
RRyw TIL that someone created a mathematical world (similar to Wonderland from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland) called the Garden of Cosmic Speculation. It’s only open to the public one day a year.
RVn8 TIL Frank Zappa made a guest appearance on an early episode of Ren & Stimpy playing The Pope
dYwr TIL that the Greeks had proposed heliocentrism 2000 years before Copernicus: Aristarchus arranged the planets in order of distance from the Sun, concluding that it could not be in orbit around the Earth because a body that large could not orbit a body so small.