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

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N7a8 TIL we know what the Sun sounds like - and it’s terrifying!
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PjaG TIL that the founders of Adidas and Puma are brothers, and were Nazis
N7kEP TIL building walls in curves takes less bricks
Z8XrD TIL that standard QWERTY keyboards are used in China. Chinese users are familiar with the sounds that Latin letters make, and they type in the way their characters sound when spoken out loud. Software then translates the sound they typed into a Chinese character.