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TIL tarantula spiders reach full adulthood at around 10 years and female tarantula spiders can live up to 30 or even 40 years.

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b9mGp TIL that the Greek word for “Carpenter” more accurately translates as “home builder” and since Judea built structures primarily out of stone, Jesus was probably a stone mason.
JYydB TIL Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, is an NBA Hall of Famer and 19x NBA All Star. He is also a best selling author, actor, film maker. He was a former U.S. Cultural Ambassador, awarded the Double Helix Medal for his work in cancer research awareness, and also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016.
8aBYX TIL: Bob Vila, famous handy man, was actually fired from This Old House. They paid him crap money and then demanded he drop his sponsorships that actually brought him income when Home Depot complained.
MK4A TIL that there will be a full moon on this coming Friday the 13th. There won’t be another Friday the 13th with a full moon until 2049.
Ege0 TIL In 1945 Frank Sinatra cancelled a $10,000 gig and traveled to Gary, Indiana to convince white high school students striking against integration to return to school. Sinatra called it “the most shameful incident in the history of American education.”