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TIL Tarantulas can swim and some can even dive in order to catch fish!

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XY9X TIL that in 1967, British politician Ming Campbell beat O.J. Simpson in a 100m sprint race at Stanford University, with a time of 10.2 seconds.
XY4R TIL New York City rioted for over a week in 1922 over when it was socially acceptable to wear a straw hat, similar incidents led to a man being killed in 1924
grwQ8 TIL in 2016 a hijacked plane was forced to land at an airport during the filming of a movie about a plane hijacking. The real footage was then used in the movie
5YOOn TIL Nikola Tesla was an advocate of sterilizing criminals and people with mental problems, and he believed that by 2100 people that aren't "desireable parents" shouldn't be able to breed
pYWe8 TIL In 1996 a parody of the video game Myst was released. It was titled Pyst, and starred John Goodman.