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TIL Leonardo DiCaprio’s new girlfriend wasn't even born yet when Titanic was released

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J1y8V TIL Diving bell spider is the only species of spider that spends almost all its life underwater, including resting, catching and eating prey, mating, egg laying, and overwintering. It only briefly surfaces to replenish its oxygen supply.
D1QOJ TIL the 550 Porsche Spyder that killed James Dean is believed to be cursed. Actor Alec Guinness told Dean he’d be “dead by this time next week if he got in that car.” Seven days later Dean would be killed by his beloved ‘Little Bastard’ Porsche. And he wasn’t the only life claimed by the cursed car.
0wOWR TIL there are around 35,000 archaeological sites in Israel, a country the size of New Jersey
MerPa TIL Rock music was smuggled into Soviet Russia in the form of “Bone Music”: since there was no vinyl, records were pressed onto used X-Ray images.
9w0b7 TIL that the first ATM was developed and built by Luther George Simjian, and installed in 1939 in New York city by the City Bank of New York. Six months later, it was removed due to the lack of customer acceptance