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TIL Mud Daubers provide their offspring with up to 25 live, paralyzed spiders in each cell.

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6E0ww TIL There is an actual city in Australia called Townsville. Can't wait to meet Professor Utonium!
788JL TIL it was theorized through the 19th century that the Arctic Ocean got warmer as it got closer to the North Pole. The "Open Polar Sea" could provide trade routes through an equator-like temperate climate to Asia, Europe, and the Americas. It was disproven by dozens of failed expeditions.
x7k0 TIL The FBI audio recorded MLK having sex with women in various hotels, then tried to blackmail him into committing suicide due to their fear he was associated with the communist party.
WkOX8 TIL The Mandela Effect is a collective misremembering of a fact or event.
GAyE7 TIL: Ben Franklin was a slaveowner for much of his life, but after a friend took him to visit a school for black children, he wrote that African ignorance was not inherently natural but came from lack of education, slavery and negative environments. He also petitioned Congress to end slavery.