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TIL about the Bagheera kiplingi the only mostly herbivorous spider that we know of, It feeds on the nectar of swollen-thorn acacias which the plant makes in a symbiotic relationship with Pseudomyrmex ants

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X0pJP TIL In the year 133BC, Rome became the first city ever to reach a population of 1 million. The next European city to do so was London in the year 1801AD, almost 2,000 years later.
woeQJ TIL human sweat is “the most extreme and distinctively human evolutionary trait as a whole”
GADOg TIL Jimmy Carter met his future wife, Rosalynn, three days after she was born, when Lillian Carter brought her 3 year old son to meet a newborn she helped deliver. They started dating 18 years later, in 1945.
paeG TIL that modern English surnames were given between the 12th and 14th centuries for taxation purposes in England, and were based on parentage (eg Donaldson), location (eg Wood, Lane), personal attributes (eg Short, Long) and occupation (Smith, Miller).
KYJpE TIL That the universe has an average color called “Cosmic Latte”