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TIL there is still a subway station that hasn’t reopened since 9/11

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G6nN TIL the world’s biggest spider is the “Goliath Birdeater” has a leg span the size of a child’s forearm, weights as much as a puppy, can live for 25 years and has fangs strong enough to pierce skulls.
l7NxG TIL not only does Nolan Ryan hold the record for most no-hitters thrown in Major League Baseball (7), he's also tied for the record for most one-hit games thrown by a pitcher with 12.
4kaG6 TIL in 1923, jockey Frank Hayes suffered a heart attack while in a horse race, but became the only known example of a dead man winning a horse race.
b6o4N TIL that Ben Franklin's invention of the lightning rod was blamed by church leaders for the 1755 Cape Ann earthquake off the coast of Colonial Massachusetts — as his "heretical rods" interfered with the "artillery of Heaven" & deprived God of using lightning as "tokens of His displeasure."
ADXdl TIL that Rick Moranis was the first choice to play Ace Ventura