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TIL that spiders can fly using Earth's electrical field. Spiders have flown 'two-and-a-half miles up in the air, and 1,000 miles out to sea.'

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XE4Ok TIL that a cat named Barney "the cemetery cat," beloved by his community, is buried in his own plot after providing comfort to mourners at a cemetery for 20 years.
BgWPx TIL 100 years ago, the big band song "Masculine Women, Feminine Men" worried that women were too manly for smoking and playing pool, while men were too effeminate for buying cologne and dressing their children
Lkep0 TIL of Shabani, a gorilla at a Japanese zoo considered so handsome that he became an internet sensation in 2015 when women began flocking to the zoo to gaze at him. They vied to get his attention and took photographs which they shared on social media.
JlK8 TIL Mom (Futurama) was included in the 2007 Forbes list of the richest fictional characters as well as named one of the top ten worst moms ever by time magazine
ddkr TIL Brazil has replaced almost 42 percent of its gasoline needs with sugarcane ethanol – making gasoline the alternative fuel in the country.