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

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mBxP TIL that the 1918 flu pandemic is often called the Spanish flu because Spain didn’t fake and minimise the data about the dead like Germany, Britain, France and the USA.
49PJ TIL much beloved songs “Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy” from Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker” and the opening notes of “Hedwigs Theme” throughout the “Harry Potter” series as well as many others were performed on a little known instrument called the Celesta.
jNrKp TIL Rockstar Games thought it was so important to include the song "Walk The Night" in GTA IV, that they hired a private investigator to look up the relatives of Delaney (who died in 2003) so they could find whoever holds the rights of the song now in order to make a licensing deal.
LQoRv TIL British rock band The Who was at Shepperton Studios filming a music video and in the adjoining studio, They were shooting the egg room scene from the movie Alien. The Director borrowed the laser from the who to make the effect with the smoke and the laser over the top of the eggs.
nwgY TIL The “Door Close” button on many elevators doesn’t actually close the doors any faster than normal.