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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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NR7e TIL the first child to be “mailed” was sent to his grandmother in 1913. The 10 ¾ pound boy from Batavia, Ohio was sent to his grandmother a mile away. The boy’s parents paid 15 cents for the stamps and insured their son for $50.
4klQN TIL that France developed its own Internet called Minitel.
M71dm TIL in 1927 the University of Michigan had two live Wolverines as mascots”Biff and Bennie”. However, they were so ferocious the players refused to carry them around and soon were too vicious to have in campus and were given back to the Detroit zoo.
8aYMV TIL Benjamin Franklin invented anti-wound pads that would later become disposable menstrual pads
R7JKQ TIL that someone in New York state bought an old bowl at a tag sale in 2007 for $3. When the buyer had it appraised several years later, they learned it was a 1,000-year-old Chinese bowl initially valued at $200,000 to $300,000. It later sold at auction for $2.2 million.