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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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K4ya TIL The bottom 5% of the population in USA is richer than 68% of the world population
aQgo TIL that before Ronald Reagan became President, his first job was as a lifeguard where he saved 77 lives.
xVWyD TIL Lynn Margulis, proponent for the significance of symbiosis in evolution (bacteria merging into other bacteria to form more complex cells), had such trouble getting her ideas recognized that a grant proposal was returned with "Your research is crap. Don't ever bother to apply again."
Meg9m TIL of Adam Rainer, the only known person in history to be both a giant and a dwarf, he was 3’8” at age 19, and 7’8” at age 51
4Xw6N TIL that during the Christmas of 1819, King George III - who by then was completely blind, increasingly deaf, had dementia, was in pain from rheumatism and suffering from another bout of insanity - spoke nonsense for 58 hours.