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TIL Ladybird Johnson donated money to have wildflowers along all of Texas Highways

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QJ4la TIL Horses are the only mammals other than humans that can produce large amounts of sweat. Most of it is produced in their armpits
QNKQL TIL that the de Bothezat helicopter was a quadcopter that first flew in 1922 and Thomas Edison called it the first successful helicopter.
ddpj TIL Canadians attempted to build a ship out of ice during WWII.
OoWva TIL that the jumping spider, Nefertiti, was launched to the ISS to observe if it could catch prey in microgravity. It succeeded in catching prey by learning to walk slowly, rather than leaping, as this species usually does. It survived reentry and readjusted to full gravity before its natural death.
8a7jb TIL Sir Alec Guiness HATED his role as Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars: "Apart from the money, I regret having embarked on the film," calling the dialog "lamentable." An autograph seeker told him he'd seen the movie over 100 times; he gave him an autograph on the condition he never see the movie again.