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TIL that Black Widow spiders are often hunted down and killed by their Brown Widow cousins when in the same territory.

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pYZQb TIL that the last ship the legendary American frigate USS Constitution ever captured was an illegal slave ship named H. N. Gambrill. The 1853 seizing occurred while Constitution was serving as flagship of the United States Navy's anti-slave trading Africa Squadron.
NEmP TIL Actor Willem Dafoe was expelled from high school for shooting a porno.
gQ59 TIL of Swordquest, an Atari 2600 game that contained hidden clues players could decipher for a chance of winning jewelry prizes valued at $25,000~ each
vPyJx TIL Founder's Hall, a $4 million museum devoted to telling the story of Canada’s birth, located blocks away from the site of the 1864 Charlottetown Conference, shut down due to lack of interest. Visitors dropped from 40,000 a year in 2001 to 13,000 in 2015
Y7WnB TIL that Ireland had its own time zone for 36 years.