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TIL walking into a spider's web is considered a good omen in Thailand, and means you'll meet a new friend. In Japan it means meeting a new friend the very same day.

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LkdkV TIL: The Ogre Faced Spider's eyes are more sensitive than both a cat's and an owls, but every day at dawn the photosensitive portion of it's eyes are destroyed by the sun, and the arachnid has to regrow this portion each and every evening.
na5Y TIL Malala Yousafzai titled her book, “I am Malala” as an act of defiance against the soldier who shot her for attending school. The last thing she remembered hearing was him asking, “Which one of you is Malala?”.
ykX TIL that there is a town in Michigan called Hell– and that anyone can be the mayor of Hell for a day by simply answering six questions.
neYpY TIL that Emma of Normandy married both Æthelred the Unready, the King of the English, and Cnut the Great, the son of Sweyn Forkbeard who overthrew Æthelred. Her sons by each, Edward the Confessor and Harthacnut, each became king of England.
Qbad TIL: The algorithms or “black boxes” used by some of the world’s top trading firms were “left to evolve” and have become so advanced nobody fully understands how they work.