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TIL: You’re not safe from spiders even in the water; There is a spider that hunts and lives under water. It traps air bubbles to breathe from while it dives for food.

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kOG11 TIL that in the city of Yiwu in eastern China, people were confused how a Chinese couple managed to run a busy restaurant 21 hours a day without getting tired. Locals named them "robot couple restaurant". Turns out the restaurant is run by two couples, both the men and women are identical twins.
nOlr TIL Chadwick (the discoverer of the neutron) was a student of Rutherford (discoverer of the proton) who was the student of Thomson (the discoverer of the electron).
KxdB TIL In the mid 1990’s the bees in an apple-growing region of China called Maoxian County, disappeared. People then started pollinating apple trees by hand using brushes made of chopsticks and chicken feathers.As a result, apple production increased 30-40%.
GJEJ TIL of 286 scholarly investigations: 221 empirical studies and 65 reviews and/or analyses, that demonstrate women are as physically aggressive, or more, than men in their relationships with their spouses or male partners. The aggregate sample size in the reviewed studies exceeds 371,600.
rEn1 TIL MTV contacted Weird Al and told him they would not air his “Don’t Download This Song” video if references to filesharing programs were not in some way removed, so he “made the creative decision to bleep them out as obnoxiously as possible, so that there would be no mistake I was being censored.”