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TIL Steve Irwin was just the second person reported killed by a stingray in Australian waters since 1945.

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VBn7m TIL that the male redback spider will assist his partner during sexual cannibalism by somersaulting toward her mouthparts. Because this allows him to mate only once, some find a juvenile female -- too young to eat him -- and break her exoskeleton to deliver his sperm for her to use when mature.
rRgZ0 TIL the reversing falls of the St John River in New Brunswick, Canada where not only does the river change flow direction during the day due to the incoming water from the changing tides in the Bay of Fundy it also becomes still for short periods called slack tides where the flow forces are equal.
DQAMD TIL that the visual effects of the film, The Fountain, cost only a total of $140,000 on a budget of $35 million due to macro photographer Peter Parks’ creative solutions and a bare minimum of CGI.
R5WR6 TIL the largest landowner in the world is King Charles, who owns 6.6billion acres (roughly 1/6 of the entire world land area), which is more then the next 24 largest landowners combined.
R7O14 TIL R.E.M. singer Michael Stipe nearly died of scarlet fever in 1962, of hypothermia in 1974, and of a lightning strike in 1986.