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TIL David Bowie has a spider named after him.

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bE0Q TIL Aborigines were chained by the neck and force fed salt to help explorers find waterholes in arid Western Australia
xVeV1 TIL Medical errors kill more Americans every year than guns, cars and alcohol combined.
rNN9e TIL in 1999, Danish physicist Lene Hau was able to slow down light to 38 mph (61 kmph), and was later able to stop it completely, manipulate it, even move it to a different location.
neb9o TIL Frederick Douglass was the most photographed American in the 19th-Century
WkGwd TIL that the first American to die in Vietnam was actually murdered by a fellow soldier in 1956. Richard B. Fitzgibbon Jr. gave candy to local children when he bumped into a drunk colleague that shot him on sight. It took 43 years for his name to be added to the Vietnam War Memorial.