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TIL of a spider that presents from behind a tough, flat, circular shield resembling the cover of a manhole. The ravine trapdoor spider is the common name of a rare, oddly shaped North American spider. This spider looks as though the end of its abdomen, rear segment of the body, had been sliced off.

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p8W58 Til in 2012, before the introduction of Uber, a Toronto Taxi license was sold for $360,000. By 2018 they were rumored to be down to $65,000 and likely still dropping.
v1N6D TIL that all real numbers would have to count as ‘even’, since for any real 'a' there is always a real 'c' such that a=2c, division by 2 being always possible for reals
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a8OEL TIL that in 1997 Pope John Paul II had named St. Isidore of Seville as the patron saint of the Internet, as the seventh-century theologian and encyclopedist who wrote the sole encyclopedia for nearly a millenium around 650 AD.