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TIL: That Maine is the only US state not known to have any ‘dangerously venomous’ spiders.

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yVKlp TIL Astronauts had to leave unnecessary items behind on the moon so the Apollo lander could lift off safely. These items included golf balls, cameras, boots, a telescope and 96 bags of poop, urine and vomit.
DQ8dr TIL an autological word expresses a property that it also possesses (e.g., “word” is a word and pentasyllabic has five syllables)
jNdN TIL that Roe, of Roe v Wade fame, lied about rape to try to obtain an abortion, because Texas had rape/incest exception to their pro-life laws.
bPPa TIL that in MAY 1997, an IBM supercomputer known as Deep Blue beat then chess world champion Garry Kasparov, who had once bragged he would never lose to a machine. After 15 years, it was discovered that the critical move made by Deep Blue was due to a bug in its software.
VBQEk TIL that most Americans still use SMS as the main method of instant messaging