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TIL that just a single pound of spider web could form a single strand long enough to stretch around the equator

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M7bYA TIL that animals in the wild die from all kinds of things, from tuberculosis in sea lions to hepatitis in bear cubs (paragraph 5)
Me6KA TIL about phantom pregnancy, where women believe they’ve been pregnant for years despite having ultrasounds, doctors, and pregnancy tests repeatedly prove them wrong.
e0Pbg TIL of the People's Republic of Korea (1945-1946), the short lived Socialist government of a unified Korea which, based on a network of people's committees, presented a program of radical social change. In the south, the US military government outlawed the PRK on December 12, 1945.
OoOGa TIL one of the first functional digital home computers was the Digi-Comp I from 1963. It was entirely mechanical and used no electricity. It could output 3 binary digits and programmers used thin wires to set up primitive logic. With no power, the user had to pull a lever to perform each CPU cycle.
vKN8 TIL The ruins of Pompeii are so well preserved that you can still read graffiti from the period.