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TIL that "daddy long legs" are not spiders. They are called Harvestmen, or Opiliones, and they are more closely related to mites.

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aly TIL on June 27, 1844, Mormon Founder Joseph Smith was murdered by an angry mob while he sat in a jail cell. The incident arose after Smith ordered the destruction of a news paper that exposed the fact he had married 8 already-married women.
e0vdD TIL that to solve their issue of crime syndicates attending shareholder meetings and blackmailing members, Japanese businesses decided to hold all their annual meetings on the same day because the syndicates would not have enough people to send to all of them.
p8lNb TIL of Joy Milne - A Scottish woman who astounded doctors by being able to smell Parkinson disease.
wLLAY TIL Steven Seagal (90s action star) was declared by a Buddhist spiritual leader to be the reincarnation of a 17th-century Buddhist master. Seagal was given the title of "tulku" which is a being who reincarnates into the world to help other beings reach enlightenment.
X1Pj TIL Dylan McDermott (American Horror Story) who appears to be in his 30’s is actually 51.