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TIL no spiders in Australia have actually killed anyone in over 30 years.

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a8kQZ TIL "zoanthropy" is a psychological pathology wherein a person believes that they are a type of non-human animal. E. G. "clinical lycanthropy", the belief that they turn into a wolf.
9WrQ TIL that Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s favorite episode of South Park is “Terrance and Phillip in Not Without My Anus (1998)”
4KGa TIL when a man asked Xerxes to exempt his eldest son from serving in the army, he had the young man cut in half and ordered his army to march between his two parts
Egb0 TIL that Liam Neeson used to be a school teacher and punched a student in the face for pulling a knife on him.
N7XGM TIL in 2007, producers for ABC's Extreme Makeover coaxed a contestant's family into making hurtful comments about her ugliness, then cut the contestant from the show because the recovery period wouldn't fit their production schedule. The contestant's sister killed herself four months later.