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Velvet worms can shoot strings of goo Spiderman-like from their mouths to entangle their prey.

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MeLV TIL mini golf was invented in 1867 because women couldn’t play ‘real golf’ because Victorian manners meant women couldn’t raise clubs over their shoulders on backswings.
X7Pr TIL that during the pursuit of Gary Powers in his U2 spy plane on May 1st 1960, the USSR fired so many surface-to-air missiles in his general direction that one struck a soviet MiG-19 fighter sent to intercept him
P14VG TIL that my favorite Halloween song, "Thriller," was written by an Englishman named Rod Temperton. The list of popular songs that he wrote blew me away. I really enjoyed listening to all of those songs on the radio when I was growing up and I'd never heard his name. "The Invisible Man" indeed!
gM884 TIL Sexual imprinting occurs in falcons when raised by humans and if they need to breed, falconers will wear a special semen collecting hat and allow a male falcon to mate with their head. The falconers then 'court' a female imprinted falcon and impregnate her by injecting the semen into her cloaca.
nW5JW TIL Les Misérables was not set during the French Revolution and instead a smaller insurrection known as The June Rebellion, or the Paris Uprising of 1832