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TIL that millions of spiders completely cocooned trees in silk after the unprecedented 2010 flooding in Pakistan.

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DQe4g TIL Vecihi Hürkuş was the first person to ever build an airplane in Turkey. When the plane was completed Hürkuş flew it for 15 minutes but was arrested by flying without a permit.
GYlD4 TIL Venus Flytraps are native only to the coastal bogs of North and South Carolina in the United States, specifically within a 100-kilometer (60 mi) radius of Wilmington, North Carolina.
vPoD TIL it is not incorrect to call DUCT tape, DUCK tape. It was duck tape, first
neger TIL ‘Double Rainbow Guy' Paul Vasquez has died :(
699ol TIL that elephants can become delinquents without a father figure: a group of teenage male elephants who grew up without one killed over 50 rhinos in a South African national park before older males were introduced.