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TIL That spiders on caffeine have no idea what they are doing

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LkaR9 TIL that two-star orbiting planets like Star Wars' Tatooine were by wide consensus considered impossible, and the first such planet was only confirmed as recently as 2011
KOOoQ TIL In the 18th century, King George I of England declared all pigeon droppings to be property of the Crown.
m1bGY TIL 60% of the global cocoa supply comes from Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, where more than 1.5 million children work on cocoa farms.
9YJw6 TIL about the town of Llanfair­pwllgwyngyll­gogery­chwyrn­drobwll­llan­tysilio­gogo­goch in Wales. It's name means roughly "St Mary's church of the pool of the white hazels over against the pool of St Tysilio of the red cave".