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TIL that if you're American, there is a roughly 87% chance you are the only person of your sex with your date of birth in your zip code. [PDF]

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b64nj TIL David Cronenberg's early horror film, The Brood, was his answer to the optimistic divorce drama Kramer vs. Kramer released the same year. He also intentionally cast the main couple in the film to resemble Cronenberg and his wife. He considered it his "most cathartically satisfying film."
rve0 TIL Upon George Washington’s death, Napoleon Bonaparte ordered 10 days of mourning throughout the country
D1bvg TIL in 2016 Scientists observed the first case of a giant spider eating an opossum: Scientists from the University of Michigan were studying predation of small vertebrates by arthropods in the Peruvian Amazon when they came across a giant tarantula devouring an opossum, which was still twitching
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