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TIL about "spider goats", which are goats that have been given spider silk-spinning genes so that they produce a protein in their milk that can be extracted to produce silk.

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oRBaE TIL Giuseppe Morello was founder of one of the first crime families in the United States. Morello was originally from Corleone, Sicily and his crime family was notorious for disposing of victims by putting their dismembered remains in barrels, sometimes shipping the barrels to nonexistent addresses.
9LLp TIL The eBay secondary market for Nike shoes is conservatively estimated at $230 million which would represent 8.5% of Nike earnings for 2014. Nike is happy this market exists and isn’t trying to stop it because the sneakerheads that drive it spread the Nike gospel better than they can.
ZJQD TIL The United States Coast Guard occasionally received telegrams from concerned citizens, who apparently did not realize Gilligan’s island was a scripted show, pleading for them to rescue the people on the deserted island.
wo6J7 TIL about Passage du Gois in France, a road that connects the mainland to Noirmoutier Island and gets submerged by water twice a day, during high tide, for around 4 hours!
GrjJ TIL that the replacement for ivory billiard balls were ones made from nitrocellulose, which occasionally exploded on impact with another ball. A bar owner wrote to the inventor saying that they didn’t bother him much but for the fact that every man in his saloon immediately pulled a gun at the sound