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TIL that after Kanye interrupted Taylor Swift, Comedy Central replayed the episode “Fishsticks” four times consecutively.

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wLZ0J TIL that the story of how the Daddy Long Legs is one of the most venomous spiders in the world, but that it lacks big enough fangs to bite is false three times. It’s fangs are as long as a recluse, they lack venom, and they are Harvestmen, not even spiders.
kOWJ7 TIL that the “BASE" in BASE jumping is an acronym that stands for four categories of fixed objects from which one can jump: building, antenna, span, and earth
ADpBw TIL the deadliest blizzard in history occurred in 1972, in Iran. 4000 people died and over 200 villages were totally wiped out for good.
bjOj TIL by using more pressure than found in earth’s core, scientists at Germany’s Bayerisches Geoinstitut made diamond gemstones from peanut butter. Scientist Dan Frost noted that the hydrogen that’s bonded to the peanut butter’s carbon makes the process messier and that the process is slow.
XEX1R TIL the longest poem in the world is the Mahābhārata, a Hindu text. It's literally 5 times the length of the bible and the Iliad and the odyssey combined! It has 220000 verses and about 1.8 million words