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TIL that Clement Vallandigham was a lawyer who accidentally shot himself demonstrating how someone could accidentally shoot themself

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ZpXNQ Today I learned that if a spider is big enough, it can hiss by moving the hairs on its body a certain way - it sounds somewhere between rustling leaves and a snake
jNwZj TIL Japanese, but not European, honeybees can “slow cook” giant hornets to death, when they attack the hive. They do this by forming a giant swarm, a “bee ball”, around the hornet and vibrate their flight muscles to create heat. They warm the area up to 116°F, slowly “cooking” the hornet to death.
wLLoW TIL Facebook artificial intelligence robots were shutdown after they started talking to each other in their own language
e0DD6 TIL the Manhattan Project scientists originally wanted to bomb Kyoto, but Secretary of War Henry Stimson successfully convinced the president that it would be needless culture vandalism, as he had toured the city on his honeymoon and knew it was not a military target.(Reposted with corrected source)
wLwOE TIL 50 Cent once challenged Floyd Mayweather to read one page of a Harry Potter book