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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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6968w TIL During the 19th century, Armand David was the first westerner to 'discover' the Giant Panda, which he believed to be a "new species". In the course of his explorations, Père David sent back to Paris specimens of 63 previously unknown animals and 65 birds.
BrwZr TIL about the 1958 destruction of Ripple Rock, an underwater mountain in southwest British Columbia. It took three years to place over 1,000 tons of explosive in tunnels under the mountain, and it was one of the largest non-nuclear planned explosions on record.
neKk9 TIL about Inspector Clouseau, a giant, pink manta ray, and scientists are not 100% sure where his unique color comes from
JYK7B TIL that IKEA told as eye-KEY-uh, is actually pronounced as ee-KAY-uh.
VM4Q8 TIL that even though Philo Farnsworth, the inventor of electronic television, was disappointed by it for most of his life, he changed his mind the day he saw Neil Armstrong walk on the Moon thanks to his invention, telling his wife "this has made it all worthwhile".