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TIL the term 'spam' referring to unwanted junk emails comes from Monty Python's Spam sketch

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lolXN TIL that there are currently more identified arachnid species than there are of all vertebrae combined
P19ZV TIL that Douglas Kelley, psychologist who examined the defendants at the Nuremberg Trials, committed suicide in front of his family by taking potassium cyanide.
yVb1w TIL Warhol's 'Shot Marilyns' series got its name from performance artist Dorothy Podber asking him if she could shoot the series she saw were stacked in his studio & thinking she meant photograph them, he agreed. She then took a gun from her purse & shot a hole in 4 of the 5 paintings in the series.
N7ZG6 TIL about Bob Dylan's Never Ending Tour that has been going on continuously for the last 31 years, and throughout the 90's and 00's played roughly 100 dates a year - on April 19th 2018 he played his 3000th show.
b91A4 TIL a baby born while a war is going on is more likely to be male