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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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ljbV TIL the Russian city of Volgograd changes its name to Stalingrad (its former name) nine days a year
x6b50 TIL that the role of Ruby Rhod in The Fifth Element almost went to Prince rather than Chris Tucker.
66bQ TIL “… economists have pointed out that if all the money spent on federal antipoverty programs were given to [the poor], a family of four would have an annual income near $70,000. [They] get less than half the money [given] in their name; most goes to fund the bureaucracies that run the programs.”
ZVko TIL its national sleepy head day in Finland. Where the last person asleep in the house is woken up by either being thrown into water or have water dumped on them.
wLLvo Short answer: they prefer peanuts to provolone