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TIL the largest spider ever recorded was a goliath bird-eating spider measured at a leg span of 11 inches (about the size of a dinner plate) in 1965

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NABE TIL Porky Pig, not Bugs Bunny, is the oldest continuing Looney Tunes character.
p8xbG TIL Sumo has a sort of caste system- wrestlers typically live together and higher ranked earn far more money, and are treated akin to royalty, while lower ranked wake up earlier to make the food, earn far less money, and even have to bathe the higher ranked
xdOk TIL that all males in South Korea after reaching the age of 18 must go through at least 21 months of mandatory military service training.
10Gr TIL Norway had a nationwide butter crisis where a package of butter cost 50$
x6aA1 TIL most audio recordings contain a background "mains hum" from electric power grid oscillations that can be matched with grid readings to date the clip to the second it was recorded.