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TIL the “an average person eats nine spiders in their sleep” statistic was invented in the early 90’s as an example of the absurd things people will believe simply because they come across them on the Internet.

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ep40n TIL that the US bombing in the Vietnam War was roughly 100 times the combined impact of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs
xaxk TIL Jeff Bridges was four months old in his first film appearance
Z8ayY TIL in 1898 a group of Indian railroad workers were stalked by a pair of man-eating lions that killed at least 35 of the labourers and stopped constuction before being shot to death.
R7Eyw TIL in 1879 it was estimated the Oxford English Dictionary to take 10 years for completion, but in five years they'd only reached the word "Ant". After crowdsourcing readers to help it was completed 44 years later. The publishers now estimate it would take a single person 120 years to just type it.
16ZGr TIL 65-85% of white cats with blue eyes are deaf.