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TIL spiders can fly hundreds of miles using the Earth’s electrical field to launch themselves

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ANkro TIL There’s a chance you might get blown to smithereens if you donate your body to science… Jim Stauffer said the paperwork asked specifically if medical tests involving explosions were OK. “We checked the ‘no’ box on all that,”
Wbgo TIL that the new Toyota Mirai is one of the first fuel cell vehicles being sold commercially and uses hydrogen to run, while emitting water vapor.
gkRX TIL the CIA released reports in 2007 detailing how it partnered with the Mafia to assassinate Castro
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r984 TIL When an insect tries to eat the leaves of a pineapple, the leaves secrete a digestive enzyme which kills the insect, and then the leaves absorbs the insect for nutrition.