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TIL ticks are arachnids, so they have 8 legs

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1aaXP Is it true that drinking tea made from twice boiled water is bad for you?
rRa5x TIL CS Lewis did not intend for Aslan to be an allegory of Christ, but rather an actual incarnation of Christ in Narnia. He said "Since Narnia is a world of Talking Beasts, I thought He [Christ] would become a Talking Beast there, as He became a man here."
b9eY4 TIL “Hitchen’s razor”, the concept that something asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence, predates Christopher Hitchens by hundreds of years.
xVVyg TIL the United States has released or pardoned more people for treason than it has executed.
6EmwW TIL of the FFF system of units. For example, the speed of light is 1.8026 megafurlongs per microfortnight.