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TIL how glitter is made

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LkwVZ TIL That the domesticated hamsters we now call pets are all descended from one “Adam and Eve” like pair captured in Aleppo, Syria in 1930.
b60KZ TIL A horse can be up to 15 horsepower
wLLrM TIL that Diana Nyad, at the age of 64, became the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida. This was done unassisted.
M7NBW TIL that Bell Labs, a research company that has contributed to many significant inventions, including transistors, lasers and solar cells, and whose work has been awared nine Nobel Prizes, is currently owned by Nokia
KOa1w TIL that there are kinky spiders who tie up their lovers with silken cords before and during sex to avoid getting eaten and to extend their mating time.