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TIL that both the lethality of black widow spider bites and the frequency of their post-mating cannibalism are both very low

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X4dj TIL in 1999 Martin Luther King Jr’s family won a wrongful death lawsuit, the jury found that the US Government had some doing in his assassination. The family only asked for $100 in restitution to prove the suit was not for financial gain.
NKXe TIL With over 4,700 species of frogs, only one (the Pacific Tree Frog) goes “RIBBIT”. Because Hollywood sound engineers recorded clips of local frogs for various films over the years, we associate the “RIBBIT” sound with frogs to this day.
0d8mR TIL one of the legends behind the origin of Maultasche, a German meat dumpling from the Swabia region, states that the monk who invented the dish hid the meat in these dumplings to fool God as a work around during the Lent period.
b67p0 TIL archangels are not the highest rank of angel, in fact they are second-lowest. This misconception stems from John Milton's "Paradise Lost"
6LaX TIL that it snows metal on Venus