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TIL that Hummingbirds use spider silk when making their nests.

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N69N TIL a French man named Benoît Lecomte once swam 3,716 miles across the entire Atlantic Ocean, from Massachusetts to France; the feat took him a total of 73 days, 5 of which included him being followed by a great white shark
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