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TIL that Australian Funnel-Web spider fangs can penetrate fingernails and shoes

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WkD14 TIL "ball lightening" has no explanation despite being seen by 3% of people. Reports describe it as floating orbs of light that sometimes enter people's homes.
ADOBd TIL Doritos were created at Disneyland to recycle old tortillas that had been discarded.
djVj TIL one tonne of Thorium is equivalent to 200 tonnes of uranium or 3,500,000 tonnes of coal AND 3 times more abundant than uranium but we still dont use it would require “to great an investment and no clear payoff”
nWw4P TIL the “like a good neighbor, State Farm is there” jingle was written by Barry Manilow
PenV TIL there is a village in the Netherlands comprised entirely of people with dementia. It’s been called a “Truman Show for the elderly.”