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TIL the UN estimate for how many land animals were slaughtered by humans in 2022 was 80 billion

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4kkno TIL Fish eating spiders exist on every continent bar Antartica and can grow to have a leg length of up to 9cm long
PY5xZ TIL Hedgehogs are a food source in many cultures. Hedgehogs were eaten in Ancient Egypt and some recipes of the Late Middle Ages call for hedgehog meat.
4kyBJ TIL the calculator app on the iPhone can do a variety of conversions (currency, length, speed, etc.)
aAXo TIL in 1486, Spanish mathematician Paolo Valmes was allegedly burned at the stake for claiming to have solved the quartic equation because it was a against the will of God “such a solution (is) inaccessible to human understanding”
VmlB TIL that nothing has happened at all in the five months since the CIA lied about and then admitted to hacking the computers of the U.S. Senate committee that was trying to provide oversight of them.