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TIL that spiders use earth’s electric field to fly vast distances in a process called “ballooning”. Charles Darwin first theorized that spiders use electric force to fly in 1832 when he observed the HMS Beagle was covered in webs while at sea.

QNK8e TIL Stu Unger, widely regarded one of the best gin and Texas hold em players of all time, won an estimated $30 million during his poker career. He died with no assets to his name, having lost much of the money betting on horses and sports, and supporting his drug habit.
69pn8 TIL 85% of social media videos are watched on mute, making captions essential for engagement.
woEVo TIL in a study researchers have found that intense sweetness can be more addictive than cocaine, in fact when rats were allowed to choose between water sweetened with saccharin and intravenous cocaine, the large majority of animals (94%) preferred the sweet taste of saccharin
grA9L TIL General Tso's chicken is named for Chinese general Tso Tsung-t'ang (1812-1885), best known for recapturing the great western desert region of Xinjiang. Popular in the US, there is no record of any dish named after General Tso in his region of Hunan
OoZg1 TIL about Henry Rathbone, a Major in the Union Army who was with President Lincoln at the time of his assassination in Ford's theate. Despite being stabbed and slashed by John Wilkes Booth, he tried to apprehend the assassin and escorted Mary Lincoln to her husband, later passing out from blood loss