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TIL that Mavis Beacon, from Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, is not a real person and is a stock photo

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kOZad TIL, Ant traps don’t literally trap and kill ants. Workers carry small portions of the bait back to the nest where it is transferred mouth to mouth to other workers, larvae, and queens to kill the entire colony.
mQbp TIL that Nazi Germany’s most successful interrogator never used torture to get information; he instead befriended prisoners. He later helped create mosaic art for Disney.
R5lLw TIL that Robert Fulton's steamship was named North River Steamboat, and that the name it's popularly called today, Clermont, was due to an error in a biography of Fulton. No accounts of the vessel being called Clermont during Fulton's lifetime have been found.
KYWN4 TIL that the Makkah Royal Clock Tower stands 601 meters and is the centerpiece of the Abraj Al Bait Complex of seven luxury hotels which overlook the Kaaba and Holy Mosque, the focus of pilgrims performing Umrah and Hajj. The clock hosts the Makkah Time, a time signal to unify the Islamic world.
wPa8 TIL A goat in Utah was implanted with spider genes as an embryo to produce spider silk proteins in her milk which is used to make “bio-steel”, a material which is stronger than Kevlar.