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TIL There are more “Swedish” ISIS jihadists per capita than any other western country (from October 2014)

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5YB89 TIL Hansen's soda is owned by Coca Cola.
n5e9 TIL Tarantulas and other spiders lack leg extending muscles, and rely on the blood pressure spike from a heartbeat to ‘reinflate’ the leg back to its extended position. This is why spiders curl up when they die.
4kBrR TIL when a cartoon character pulls something out of a hidden pocket it is referred to as Hammerspace: an imaginary extradimensional, instantly accessible storage area in fiction, which is used to explain how animated, comic, and game characters can produce objects out of thin air.
dyRK TIL Fall Colors Are Different in U.S. and Europe
kJvbg TIL about the de Havilland Mosquito, a WWII multirole aircraft unique for having wooden construction. Called the "Wooden Wonder," it was one of the fastest operational aircraft in the world.