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TIL Tobey Maguire has won over $10 million playing professional poker.

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l7eK5 TIL ticks are arachnids, so they have 8 legs
WkOV9 TIL a cockroach can "karate kick" an emerald jewel wasp in the head. If not kicked away, a wasp injects venom into a roach's brain & midsection which paralyzes a roach's front legs & makes it a zombie to be led by its antennae; then it gets stuck with a wasp egg & eaten alive by wasp larvae.
b9Av0 TIL that US food manufacturers used cans that were soldered with lead until 1991.
16bKd TIL that former NBA Player and Milwaukee Buck, Junior Bridgeman who passed away on Tuesday, 3/11 was recently determined to be the fourth wealthiest retired athlete in the World by Forbes Magazine. His pro basketball career lasted from 1975-1987 but later became a billionaire as a entrepreneur.
R5knj TIL that Bosnia and Herzegovina only uses the letters A, E, O, J, K, M and T in its vehicle registration plates because it uses both the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets, and these letters are written and pronounced identically in both. The same plates can therefore be used in every region.