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TIL that there's a spider in Malaysia scientifically named after Bowie, the "Heteropoda davidbowie".

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69oe8 TIL about 70,000 years ago Scholz's Star passed through the Oort Cloud affecting the orbits of the planets in our solar system.
R7D99 TIL about cotton candy grapes; a type of grape that tastes like cotton candy. Created by David Cain, the cotton candy grape was made by breeding plants. He grew 100,000 test tube plants before getting the perfect cotton candy grape.
kjO4 TIL that if you have excess skin after dramatic weight loss, you can actually donate the skin, which is removed via surgery, to burn victims
V4QG TIL In 2010 a passenger secretly brought a crocodile onboard a plane. It escaped and everyone ran to the back of the plane which led to an imbalance and a crash killing 19 of the 20 onboard.
krlE TIL that the world’s highest speeding fine was $200,000 and it was issued in Finland. The fine was calculated according to Finnish law allowing speeding tickets to be relative to the offender’s last known income.