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TIL the golden wheel spider rolls down hills cartwheel-style to escape its predators

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mmnM TIL that the KGB ran a disinformation campaign focused on spreading the rumor that the USA had invented and spread AIDS as part of a biological weapons program
x6Emk TIL The deadlist slave revolt in Amerian history was on August 21, 1831, when Nat Turner, believing he was called by God to lead African Americans out of slavery, lead a rebellion that killed between 55 and 65 White people, mostly women and children.
0wLey TIL: A small village in Austria (1100 citizens) has its own small MRT (1,3km)
JEJl TIL that, since 1950, acceptance of an Academy Award statuette requires that neither winners nor their heirs may sell the statuettes without first offering to sell them back to the Academy for US$1. If a winner refuses to agree to this stipulation, then the Academy keeps the statuette.
l78B5 TIL that Nat Fein wasn’t supposed to work the day he took the first sports photograph to win the Pulitzer Prize