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TIL about the Alien Butt Spider, which sounds horrifying but is actually quite cute

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lo7OA Yes, but no more than listening to Justin Bieber. The misconception that there's something unique about Mozart's ability to increase brainpower began in 1993, with a paper in Nature. Neurobiologists Gordon Shaw, Frances Rauscher and Katherine Ky of the University of California at Irvine found that students who listened to 10 minutes of a Mozart sonata demonstrated a temporary increase in spatial-temporal reasoning, as measured by an IQ test.
JpPk TIL minutes after FDR’s mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt, died, the largest of the many oak trees outside her home suddenly collapsed. It was a clear, windless day.
OD86 TIL Chumlee of Pawn Stars makes $2500/h or $100,000/wk from his own merchandise business. This is due to his popularity on the show, surpassing all other Pawn Stars cast income.
R74m1 TIL Saharan silver ants can travel at 108 body lengths a second. This makes them one of the fastest known running species.
X1Ek TIL a young American applied for and got a job as a reporter - reporting in Japanese - at the biggest Japanese daily, and went on to uncover a deal between a major yakuza boss and the FBI.