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TIL The word Panic comes from the ancient greek god Pan
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TIL about Jeff Dabe, a competitive arm wrestler, has the biggest recorded ring size of 38, with his finger measuring 4.78" around. His wrists and forearms are 12" and 19" respectively.
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TIL it's been found that spiders, in part, store their memories and cognitive abilities in their webs. Destroying a web partially erases a spider's memory.
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TIL I learned that one of the people who is first credited with the ideas for a home mortgage and home insurance policy, as well as being an early outspoken proponent of paper currency, was named If-Jesus-Christ-had-not-died-for-thee-thou-hadst-been-damned before renaming himself Nicholas Barbon
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TIL identical twin boys were raised as a brother-sister pair (botched circumcision). The truth came when the one being raised as a girl INSISTED he was a boy; the parents admitted he was the subject of an experiment trying to prove gender identity was nurture, not nature. He later committed suicide.
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TIL that according to the terms of his parole, John Hinckley Jr., the would-be assassin of Ronald Reagan, is prohibited from owning any firearms, ammunition, other weapons, or memorabilia of Jodie Foster because of his obsession with the actress.