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TIL in the book 'Stuart Little', Stuart was born from his human mother as a mouse, rather than adopted, as the movie adaptation depicted.

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d897j TIL Ballooning is a process by which spiderlings and even some species of adult spiders move through the air by releasing one or more gossamer threads from their spinnerets to catch the wind becoming airborne sometimes for long distances and great heights at the mercy of air and electric currents.
nwJb TIL: Humanity has a 95% probability of being extinct within the next 10,000 years.
nW4d TIL hair length is significantly correlated with female attractiveness because it reveals several years of a person’s health status, acting as a cue signifying reproductive potential.
KYBVw TIL that in 1916 the US bought the Danish West Indies from Denmark for $25,000,000 in gold to turn them into the United States Virgin Islands
j4GR TIL that Rod Serling, creator and narrator of The Twilight Zone, co-wrote the film adaptation of The Planet of the Apes. He is the one responsible for the famous twist at the end.