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TIL that the ineffectiveness of using a screw driver on Ikea and other pre-assemble furniture comes from us using Phillips screw drivers instead of Pozidriv

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deJr TIL: Spiders like listening to classical music, according to research at Miami University. When listening to techno and rap, they made their webs as far away from the speaker as possible, but when listening to Bach, they made their webs as near to the speaker as possible
kbW TIL there is a staffed underwater post office where people have been mailing postcards for years.
kJJQ7 TIL that rattlesnakes need only 500-600 calories per year to survive.
rKjW TIL that an ancient and mysterious ‘whistle language’ still survives on one of the Canary Islands, used to talk across their steep ravines.
948m TIL that all Perique tobacco, a pipe tobacco used in American Spirit Black cigarettes, is farmed on less than 16 acres of land in Louisiana, mostly by one man.