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

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9wl4B TIL The aardwolf knows not to destory its food sources. Aardwolves eat part of a termite mound, leaves it, and return a few months later when the colony has rebuilt so it can have another meal. An aardwolf keeps track of mounds it attacked and can eat 250,000 termites in a single night.
rNEjM TIL that in 1953 "Atomic Annie" a nuclear-capable artillery piece, shot the first and only nuclear artillery shell from a cannon.
9Yb17 TIL the surface pressure of Venus is so high that it would collapse the hull of modern military submarines. The surface pressure on Venus is over 90 bar which is equivalent to 900 meters below the surface of the ocean.
VWP0 TIL that according to neuroscientist ‘Sam Harris’; humans are just robots without real freewill, and that our brain activity can been used to predict our decisions up to 10 seconds before we become consciously aware of it.
mxkMO TIL that the carriage Dorothy rides in in the Wizard of Oz was once owned by Abraham Lincoln.