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TIL that male funnel spiders use pheromones to knock females unconscious before mating.

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Woj4 TIL that Kane Hodder, the actor that played Jason Voorhees in four of the “Friday the 13th” films, once objected to a scene where Jason was supposed to kick a dog, “to which he insisted that Jason was not evil enough to hurt animals.”
8nKK TIL As of May 2015, 2.3 Million Americans still subscribed to AOL Dial Up Internet.
oal7 TIL that French Sprinter Christophe Lemaitre was invited to join the KKK after becoming the first non-black sprinter to run the 100 meters in under 10 seconds
rR9B0 TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger reduced the sentence of a convicted murderer because he was the son of a friend.
VMv4k TIL that the Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide, a militant organisation active from 1975 to 1987, attacked Turkish representatives and interests in Europe, North America and Australia, killing more than 30 people, among them more than 10 Turkish diplomats and attachés