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TIL the world’s first newspaper horoscope happened because British newspapers ran out of stuff to talk about when Princess Margaret was born in 1930.

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ADZYg TIL that three original transcripts of the minutes of the 1431 trial of Joan of Arc still exist.
VBn7m TIL that the male redback spider will assist his partner during sexual cannibalism by somersaulting toward her mouthparts. Because this allows him to mate only once, some find a juvenile female -- too young to eat him -- and break her exoskeleton to deliver his sperm for her to use when mature.
k4XW TIL A 2003 study found that people who ate fish once a week or more had a 60% lower risk for developing Alzheimer’s than those who consumed fish less frequently. Far more affective than any known drug.
7rawL TIL the commonly-acknowledge health goal "10,000 steps a day" has no real medical merit other than walking is good for you and it's a well rounded number.
ox9W TIL there are 10 quintillion (10,000,000,000,000,000,000) individual insects alive on Earth at any given time. That is nearly 1.5 Billion insects for every human being.