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TIL in 2012, a swarm of “jumping spiders” attacked India during a Hindu festival, killing 2 people, and injuring dozens.

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ner9r TIL about the Barbara Jordan, the first African American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction, the first Southern African-American woman elected to the US House of Representatives, and the first African-American woman to be buried in the Texas State Cemetery.
YprxW TIL Mork and Mindy was a Happy Day’s spin-off
awxVo TIL of the 2003 Monkeypox Outbreak, in which there were no documented human-to-human transmissions. Instead, all 71 afflicted parties got infected from prairie dogs. The prairie dogs were likely infected by Gambian pouched rats while they were housed at the same Illinois exotic pet store.
nWn5P TIL that Saudi Arabia has no minimum age for marriage, and it is perfectly legal to marry even an hour-old child
OoDja TIL Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election without being on the ballot in 10 Southern states.