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TIL you weigh measurably less when the moon is directly above you

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dDMDE TIL that the first movie depicting the sinking of the Titanic was released just 29 days after the tragedy, and even starred an actual survivor.
8egdL TIL armadillos are known to kill and eat the infants of much larger animals like deer, sheep, and cows
wrk7 TIL Tomatoes are picked green and ripened by exposing them to Ethylene gas. This gas changes their color to red, but does not change their flavor, leaving them bland.
aZk0 TIL that a mob from a nearby county threatened to lynch Black newspaper editor John Mitchell Jr. for writing an editorial condemning a lynching. Armed with two pistols, he then traveled to that same county to report on the lynching on-site.
o9xL TIL a venomous Brazilian wandering spider that somehow made its way to Britain survived falling into a freezer, having boiling water poured over it, and being microwaved in a jar. Later it was inadvertently released within hospital grounds.