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TIL Scientists breed goats that produce spider silk

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D1XGg TIL in 1800s, freed African-American slaves were helped to migrate to Liberia to escape oppression into a country of their very own, where they immediately established an apartheid upon their native African cousins, treating them the same way they were treated by their white oppressors.
e0j95 TIL that the weight of silverware in restaurants impacts how much a customer is willing to pay for their meal
E14ep TIL: Jimmy Page considers Stairway to Heaven a masterpiece. Robert Plant does not share his fondness. Plant has referred to it as a "wedding song" and insists that his favourite Led Zeppelin song is "Kashmir."
e0nXb TIL That the human brain takes 1/10th of a second to interpret incoming information. Because of this we are technically always living in the past and that our brains have to predict what is going to happen in the next 1/10th of a second so we can react accordingly.
W6a4 TIL Ben Stein Said this about Nixon: “He was a peacemaker. He was a lying, conniving, covering up peacemaker. He was not a lying, conniving drug addict like JFK, a lying, conniving war starter like LBJ, a lying, conniving seducer like Clinton—a lying, conniving peacemaker.