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TIL Birds have thumbs (that assist with the landing process)

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W7dxo TIL tarantula spiders reach full adulthood at around 10 years and female tarantula spiders can live up to 30 or even 40 years.
6EQnl TIL the world’s richest regions, such as North America and Europe, are not only increasing their forest area but also have more forests than they did prior to industrialization.
kO194 TIL The backup crew of Apollo 12 snuck Playboy photos into the wrist-mounted checklist of the flight crew.
ybae TIL in 1966 Harper Lee made a donation to the beadle bumble fund after “To kill a mockingbird” was banned by a school board in Hanover, Virginia who believed the book to be immoral. Harper Lee hoped that the donation would be used to educate the school board as she believed them to be illiterate
R57ya TIL of the United States Camel Corps, a mid-19th-century experiment by the United States Army in using camels as pack animals in the Southwestern United States. The Civil War interfered with the experiment and it was eventually abandoned; the animals were sold at auction.