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TIL an unknown species of spider makes creepy ass Cabal ritual circles out of silk

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oZ5K TIL a man won the lottery in 1989 for 3.1 million, then spent all the money on crack cocaine, and was later charged with murder. [x-post /r/IfIWonThelottery]
NK7e TIL in 2007 the head of a California company hired by the U.S. government to help build a fence along the Southwest border to curb the flow of illegal aliens into the United States was sentenced on charges of hiring illegals for the job.
LrGV TIL that during World War 1, New Zealand raised an army of 100,000 men, from a population of just over a million people.
MegG0 TIL Taylor Swift was born into wealth. Her father is "from three generations of bank presidents" and worked for Merrill Lynch. At the age of 14 her family moved to Nashville where her father purchased a stake in Big Machine, the label to which Swift first signed.
wPnJ TIL that the word “basketcase” is WWI slang for a soldier who had lost all 4 limbs and needed to be carried in a basket.