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TIL Australian funnel web spiders are accidentally toxic given the fact the venom appears to be fairly harmless to many other animals except primates and no primates are native to Australia.

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1aW5d TIL that the German parliament building in Berlin called the 'Reichstag Dome' has a glass dome above it that people can walk on. It symbolizes the transparency of the German government and that the people are always above the government.
vPEbx TIL The video game Dumb Ways to Die was based off of a Metro Train PSA of the same name
R18w TIL One of Columbus’s explorers was the first person to bring tobacco back into Europe. Because he could blow smoke out of his mouth, he was accused of being the devil and sent to jail for seven years by the Spanish Inquisition.
P1eyO TIL a Dutch pirate captured the Spanish treasure fleet sailing from the New World in 1628. The loss of silver alone was so great that the silver price spiked worldwide, and Spain was nearly bankrupted.
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