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TIL that there is a spider in Australia that makes a rectangular web, holds it in it’s hands, puts spots of feces on it to act as sights, then throws the web around it’s prey.

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R5ZA8 TIL there is a rainforest in Alaska
78oEr TIL Aretha Franklin required that she be paid in cash before any performance. The cash went into her handbag and the handbag either stayed with her security team or would rest on the piano during her onstage performance.
8eaaP TIL that after 9/11, On January 5, 2002, Charles Bishop, a high-school student from Florida, United States, stole a Cessna 172 light aircraft and purposefully crashed it into the side of the Bank of America Tower in downtown Tampa, Florida, killing no one but himself in the process
0gwL TIL that portobello mushrooms are the same as regular button mushrooms, just older!
m1xdp TIL the carriage used in President Kennedy’s funerary procession has an interesting history of its own. It also once carried the remains of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1945, and the Unknown Soldier in 1921.