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TIL That wolf spiders make "purring" sounds to attract mates

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v1Ky7 TIL that in 2014, a Spanish 20-year-old university student forged police and secret service documents, infiltrated the king’s coronation ceremony, shook his hand, and then impersonated a government adviser to broker a lucrative business deal.
xVYB1 TIL: about France's almost revolution in may of 68, where 1/3rd of the workforce, and 22% of the total population protested preventing the government from working, and leading the president DeGaulle to flee without anyone in the knowing his location, only ending with an armed occupation of Paris
v1Pp4 TIL that an author wrote 'Vienna without Jews' in 1922. 16 years later, jews were hunted down under Hitler's command
OnYR TIL that you are not fully protected as a seller on eBay from buyers making fraudulent claims
oBMvE TIL The most expensive domain name ever sold was www.business.com sold for a whopping 345 million USD