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YyXv TIL in a recent survey, philosophy majors ranked ranked themselves higher in regards to innate talent than biochemists, statisticians and physicists.
kJPV5 TIL that spider legs build webs without the brain's help. 🕷 🕸
xKw1 TIL in Walk the Line, the scene where Joaquin Phoenix tears the sink off the wall was unscripted and he actually did it himself.
rQ40 TIL that in 1312, a few Cockchafer Beetles, which were a major pest for crop farmers, were brought into a courtroom in Avignon and ordered to withdraw to designated territory. When the beetles (obviously) didn’t comply, they were collected and killed.
jNZRQ TIL that after the Spanish Civil war, many Republicans fled to exile in France. During WW2 more than 60,000 Spanish Republicans, experienced in guerrilla warfare, joined the French Resistance and Free French Forces. The first allied division to enter Paris was almost entirely Spanish.