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TIL there exists a less venomous, invasive Brown Widow Spider that is slowly replacing the Black Widow

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KOyxJ TIL about Augustus Agar, a Royal Navy officer with a wild 37 year career: he sunk a Soviet cruiser using a torpedo fired from a small boat, was knighted for spying, captained the Royal Yacht, smuggled £2 million in gold to Canada, and was pulled so deep by a sinking ship that he got the bends.
MgM0 TIL Prison is a huge business. Meet one of the governments biggest.
mEWv TIL the scientific name of Llamas is ‘Lama Glama’
5Vy18 TIL Pope Pius XII once asserted in a speech that the Big Bang theory scientifically proved that the universe was created by a divine creator. Horrified, the physicist Georges Lemaître convinced the Pope not to make any further statements connecting his theory and theology.
R7Jna TIL that microfluidics lab-on-a-chip application can be made in the comfort of your kitchen with the help of Shrinky Dinks