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TIL that a new species of electric blue tarantula was discovered in Thailand’s forests.

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XEPR TIL- There is a disease nicknamed Ondine’s Curse which causes sufferers to die if they fall asleep.
0dwZv TIL Several diseases and parasites can be transmitted by the various species of deer fly. These include anthrax, tularemia, equine infectious anemia, anaplasmosis, hog cholera, filariasis (including the Loa Loa worm), and Lyme disease.
5jd8 TIL in 1980, former Vice President Spiro Agnew published a memoir in which he implied that Nixon and his Chief of Staff, Alexander Haig, had planned to assassinate him if he refused to resign the Vice Presidency, and that Haig told him to “go quietly…or else,” the memoir’s title.
Wk4xL TIL that Simulants are organisms or substances which mimic physical or biological properties of real biological agents, without being pathogenic.
EwOX TIL that Ava Gardner once swam naked in a pool belonging to Ernest Hemingway. He ordered that the water never be changed.