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Scientists have trained a spider named Kim to jump on command.

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ANL0l TIL about the blood(like) rain that happened in Kerala India
n8od TIL that prior to 1993 the FDA banned women from participating in clinical trials. This resulted in a dangerous lack of awareness about how certain drugs impacted women and has led to misunderstandings about how certain diseases affect men and women differently that persist today.
rRdRw TIL that Peter Ostrum, who played Charlie in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, never took another film role and instead found a career as a vet. He did not speak publicly about the film for nearly twenty years, and for several years even his wife did not know about his role.
RKn1 TIL during the Cold War the CIA spent $3.8B to construct a ship with a 16,000ft underwater claw arm in order to retrieve a sunken Soviet nuclear submarine.
pYMYN TIL in 2016 a man inadvertently recreated a "Seinfeld" plot: Attempting to return 10,000 aluminum cans in Michigan (10c return rate per) from Kentucky (5c return rate). He was later arrested for one count of beverage return of nonrefundable bottles.