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6bpl TIL The man who found the 5,000 year old corpse Ötzi the Iceman in 1991(Oldest natural European mummy) was also found dead frozen in ice in 2004.
BrA5d TIL the first submarine attack on a ship occurred in 1864, when the CSS Hunley sank the sloop-of-war USS Housatonic using a spar torpedo, a primitive form of torpedo that was, in essence, a bomb on the end of a stick encased in a motor boat.
neEBY TIL that, in 2009, a wastewater treatment plant in Baltimore suffered an Orb Weaver Spider infestation of unprecedented magnitude. The population was estimated to be over 100 MILLION spiders in over 140,000 cubic feet of web. If this happened in your home you'd have 17 million spiders inside.
6xo7 TIL that without bats there would be no tequila. It’s made from the agave plant, which is pollinated by bats.