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

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6E0dw TIL the family of Dracula was a direct descendant of Genghis Khan.
VMJxD TIL Britain ended Capital Punishment after the unjust execution of Timothy Evans, for the murders of his wife and daughter. He'd accused his neighbour John Christie of the crime. Years later, Christie was discovered to be a serial killer who had killed 6 other woman and Evans's wife and daughter.
vM4B TIL that Dr Seuss’s first book was rejected 20+ times. He was on his way to burn it when he ran into a college friend who had just been made children’s editor at Vanguard Press. Seuss later said, ‘If I’d been going down the other side of Madison Ave, I’d be in the dry-cleaning business today.’
E1MD7 TIL that Stonehenge isn't the only one of it's kind. They are call Stone Circles and they're all over the Bristish Isles. In fact thousands of them.
pYv08 TIL A Tortoise survived without its head for 23 days