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TIL that most Black Widow spider bites in the US occur in outhouses when a man’s penis dangles under the seat where spiders make their webs.

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eYak TIL that the reason lead levels in children’s blood have dropped 85% in the past thirty years is because of an unknown scientist who fought car companies to end leaded gasoline. He also removed it from paint, suggested its removal from pipes, and campaigned for the removal of lead solder from cans.
dDlMd TIL there Greek Island of Kinaros with only two residents. Kyra Rinio, an 80 year-old woman and her dog, Shiva.
78E8X TIL: The National Park Service recommends wrapping the entire underside of your car in a tarp to protect against marmots in Sequioa National Park
RKM1 TIL Hermann Goering banned vivisection and announced an end to the “unbearable torture and suffering in animal experiments” and said that those who “still think they can continue to treat animals as inanimate property” will be sent to concentration camps.
M7o40 TIL following his death in 68AD, there was a popular conspiracy theory that Roman emperor Nero was still secretly alive