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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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yVANV TIL that in 18th century Russia there was a black African man called Abram Petrovich Gannibal. Freed from slavery and adopted by Peter the Great as his godson, he reached the status of nobility - with one of his great-grandsons being Alexander Pushkin, one of the greatest Russian writers in history.
PWjJ TIL - At its MOST liberal estimate, the entire Jewish population of the world is smaller than the acceptable statistical error when approximating the population of China.
weWE TIL that a female Prada Japan executive was demoted, then fired for being ‘Ugly’ and bringing 'Negative energy to the company’ when she complained. A Japanese court found the company’s actions acceptable. The case is now at the United Nations.
ldLr TIL the world’s largest pyramid is hidden under a mountain in Mexico and has a base four times larger than the Great Pyramid of Giza.
J1Bml TIL of Tilikum (Tilly) - a killer whale responsible for 3 of the 4 recorded human deaths by a captive killer whale.