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TIL Black Widow Spiders play dead
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TIL a man in India created and patented a machine which could manufacture low-cost sanitary pads for less than a third of the cost of commercial pads and provided the machines to self-help groups run by women all over India.
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TIL That when the physicist Murray Gell-Man was applying for PhD programs, he was denied from both Princeton and Harvard. Forced to attend his backup choice of MIT, he was so distraught that he considered suicide.
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TIL Dolly the cloned lamb was named after Dolly Parton because her DNA came from a mammary gland cell.
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TIL that some restaurants and businesses don't donate food for fear of being sued over someone getting sick, is completely unfounded and no one has ever been sued in the U.S for food donations
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TIL the NEAR Shoemaker probe landed on the asteroid Eros on February 12, 2001