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TIL that spiders can fly through still air for miles using earth's electric fields. The process is initiated by "Trichobothria", a particular kind of hair growing amidst many others on spider's bodies.

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GYy8j TIL Oregon forest landowners plant around 40 million trees every year.
pEW4 TIL that Tutankhamun was buried with a large supply of clean underwear
5pYp TIL in 1504 a German knight named Götz von Berlichingen lost his right arm when enemy cannon fire forced his own sword against him. He had two mechanical hands made for him, capable of holding a shield to a feathered pen. He was then known as Götz of the Iron Hand.
78D7M TIL the song Turn the Page was inspired by the band going into a Midwest truck stop and having everyone look at the musicians with their long hair and not knowing whether they were a man or woman and laughing at them. They said it happened all the time
GYvgG TIL that the "Cracked Bell of Trinity Church" in Ryde, England, died of a broken heart and wrote to a newspaper about it.