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TIL all the spiders on Earth weigh more than all the aircraft carriers

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EgeAw TIL why Tom Wolfe wore a white suit. The pioneer of 'New Journalism' said that the unusual clothing caused others to see him as "a man from Mars, the man who didn't know anything and was eager to know", so talked freely to him. The white suit became Wolfe's trademark from 1962 to his death.
5YR6r TIL about the existence of "reverse money laundering", the process of disguising the use of clean money to finance illegal activities.
eKBE TIL Stan Lee almost quit making comics. He only continued when Lee’s wife urged him to experiment with stories the way he wanted to, since he was planning on changing careers and had nothing to lose. This led to the golden age of comics.
X06e8 TIL the original yellow power ranger was a guy and not a girl, but most of the fight scenes in the American version are copied the original Japanese show and that's why the yellow ranger doesn't wear a skirt and has a bulge.
N7yAM TIL in the 90s Costa Rica saved a dying forest by dumping 12,000 tons of waste orange peels and pulp (1000 truckloads)