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TIL: we only ever see one side of the moon due to synchronous rotation

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J1pBv TIL the US Intelligence Community has a private wiki called Intellipedia
WKw8 TIL Tarantulas own pets. They take frogs, and bring them back to their hovels to keep as pets. They take their legs, gently stroke the frog’s back, and pat the frog on its head, and lightly scratch behind the earholes. The frog will eat harmfull insects for the Tarantula
9Yg4X TIL that the first female Egyptian nuclear physicist, Sameera Moussa was assassinated in California
wLAL8 TIL Martha Stewart dated Sir Anthony Hopkins but ended the relationship after she saw The Silence of the Lambs. She stated she was unable to avoid associating Hopkins with the character of Hannibal Lecter
j6pmp TIL the Ovsiankina effect describes the innate human urge to finish tasks we've initiated. This tendency to resume an interrupted action is especially prevalent when the action hasn't yet been achieved.