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

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Y6X7 TIL that John Oliver, from the Daily Show, met his wife at the 2008 Republican National Convention. He was doing a piece for the show, and she was working for “Veterans For Freedom.” She helped to hide him, the other correspondents, and the camera crew from security.
Qnlk TIL that there are now more Americans in jail than there were in Stalin’s Gulag Archipelago
ePDJ TIL in 2005, a student in England made a 1 million pixel webpage and put up the space for sale at $1 per pixel. He did this in order to pay for college and he was successful, selling out in less than 6 months.
KO0Na TIL the Green Bay Packers are the only publicly owned, not-for-profit, major professional sports team in the United States
PYYJG TIL that in 2007 two Young Earth Creationists created "Crocoduck", a composite sketch of a half-crocodile half-duck, in order to disprove the theory of evolution.