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TIL the Brown Recluse Spider is immune to Insecticides. Instead it causes them to become drunk and actually increases their likelihood of biting someone in their stupor.

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yQE78 TIL Alaric, famous for sacking Rome in 410, was able to do so because he enjoyed the poetry of Claudian. Claudian had described a route through the alps into Italy in his poems, which Alaric found and was thus able to use and evade direct contact with the Roman army for 6-9 months.
AEX4 TIL the QWERTY keyboard layout is very inefficient when compared to alternatives. It was originally created to “slow down” typists in order to decrease the chances of jamming the typewriter. However, the layout still endures today as we use it almost exclusively.
kPx5 TIL The combination of an exclamation point and question mark is an interrobang. (‽)
Yp74v TIL that a federal judge once ordered obnoxious lawyers to resolve a petty and meaningless dispute with a game of rock, paper, scissors
YpbYP TIL: 13 nations in Europe have Blasphemy laws with punishments ranging from fines to imprisonment.