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TIL that Russia built a computer that ran on water in 1936

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N7kLE TIL that Bolas spiders are able to mimic the pheromones produced by insects like the cecropia moth. Male moths then follow the scent of the pheromones and end up becoming the spider’s next meal.
mxOLo TIL MIT, often cited as one of the world’s most prestigious universities, puts almost all of its course materials online for anyone to access for free.
7MAX TIL there is a typewriter that types only in Comic Sans, called the “Sincerity Machine”
YpZrG TIL that out of thousands of Frog species, only one goes "RIBBIT", But it has become a global cliche of how a frog sounds because that particular frog specie resides in the West Coast of USA, where Hollywood is, and were recorded for sound effects in classic Hollywood movies.
GY5jG TIL in 1989 federal agents seized almost 20 tons of cocaine--worth up to $6 billion from a single warehouse