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TIL that mud daubers sting spiders and stuff them in the mud nest for the baby daubers to eat

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a80yo TIL The 1994 movie Tammy and the T-Rex was conceived when the director Stewart Raffill was approached by a man who had a large animatronic T-rex that he was getting rid of. He asked Raffill if he could make a movie about, who agreed, and wrote the story for the movie within a week.
R7rg1 TIL King Richard the Lionheart of England forgave and freed his killer, a young French boy whose father and brothers had been killed by Richard; the boy said he shot Richard with a crossbow as revenge, and Richard was so impressed with his bravery that he sent him off with 100 shillings
vglR TIL China has been running the world’s largest eugenics program for more than thirty years. The BGI Cognitive Genomics Project is currently doing research which has the potential to allow the IQ within every Chinese family to increase by 5 to 15 IQ points per generation.
4kM4a TIL the first thing the one-armed John Lind did the moments after he was finished with his term as Minnesota’s Governor was go to a local newspaper and punch the face of an editor who had questioned his loyalty to the US during his term.
78Ewr TIL In 1936, Just before the Olympic competitions being held in Berlin,founder of Adidas athletic shoe company Adi Dassler visited Jesse Owens in the Olympic village and persuaded Owens to wear Gebrüder Dassler Schuhfabrik shoes;this was the first sponsorship for a male African American athlete.