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TIL that cereal company General Mills had an Aeronautical Research Division that produced spy balloons for the American military and the CIA

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P7Xn TIL there’s a ‘spider-tailed’ viper thats tail mimics the appearance and movement of a spider in order to lure prey.
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V49B TIL that the Spartans were historically known to deliver badass one-liners which were dubbed as “Laconic Phrases”
1aO7D TIL the USA only ranks #43 in a list of countries by home ownership rate (64.5%). Romania is 1st with 96.4%.
Eg5wX TIL of hitchBOT, a hitchhiking robot which successfully hitchhiked across Canada, Germany and the Netherlands, but while attempting to hitchhike across the United States, it was stripped, dismembered, and decapitated in Philadelphia.