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TIL that 1 in 8 people who have ever lived are alive today

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KBO9 TIL in 1973 NASA sent two spiders known as Arabella and Anita into space to see if the could spin a web without gravity. It took the spiders a couple days to figure out, but they eventually ended up making webs that were finer and more complex than their earth counterparts.
E74w TIL the Minnesota Vikings’ new stadium cost more than a NASA mission to Pluto.
dDAN9 TIL John Brabazon Ponsonby was arrested during the French Revolution for being an aristocrate but was let free because he was too handsome to hang.
GAMRG TIL as Spielberg was filming Jurassic Park's climatic scene as originally scripted (with the velociraptors defeated by Dr. Alan Grant & John Hammond), he had the last-minute idea to bring back the T-Rex for the climax. As an "off-the-cuff thing", the physical effects had to be setup in about 24 hrs.
6EXXm TIL of teenage serial killer Charles Starkweather, who killed 11 people with his 14-year-old girlfriend. After his first murder, Starkweather believed he had transcended his former self, reaching a new plane of existence in which he could commit any crime without guilt or fear of repercussion.