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TIL David Bowie has a spider named after him.

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Rxnl TIL the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier has detoriated severely since it was built in 1921. A private citizen paid for a replacement flawless marble slab cut from the same quarry used for the original. The government rejected the replacement and it has sat over a decade unused.
jKZn TIL that Australian woman, Katherine Knight, stabbed her partner, Then proceeded to skin his body, put his head in a pot, and attempted to feed his flesh to his two children. The coroner also stated, that he was so perfectly skinned, that they were able to stitch the skin back onto his skinless body
wAMP TIL- A German man posted online looking for a person who was willing to be slaughtered and eaten. A man volunteered, the two met and they dined on his severed penis before he was willingly killed and cannibalized for months.
RKDQ TIL Dolphins can communicate with one another over a telephone, and appear to know who they are talking. In one experiment carried in an aquarium in Hawaii, the mother and her two-year-old calf in another tank, connected by a special underwater audio link, recognized each other and “talked”.
DQDRV TIL that Galileo's middle finger is considered a secular relic.