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TIL Black Widow Spiders play dead

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R5Z97 TIL about plank roads. Existing as early as 4000BC they were used to allow foot, animal, and cart/wagon traffic across soft or unstable terrain.
a8V10 TIL Some biochemical reactions in human cells would take up to 1 trillion years to complete naturally — about 100 times longer than the lifetime of the universe. Enzymes perform these reactions in 10 milliseconds.
O117 TIL Tesla doesn’t spend any money on advertising.
ZN8p TIL an Ohio woman once got out of a parking ticket because of a missing comma in the state’s laws. She successfully argued that her car wasn’t a “motor vehicle camper” and therefore wasn’t included in the list of prohibited vehicles.
X0D5P TIL the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has an online store where they sell Standards Reference Materials that are used to standardize accurate and compatible measuring across industries. 510g of SRM Peanut Butter costs $1,069.00.