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TIL Spiders can travel in jet streams at altitudes exceeding 16000 ft above sea level

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nWW47 TIL the convention of naming a dog "Fido" was popularized by Abraham Lincoln. "Fido" means "faithful" and it's use as a dog's name dates back to the ancient Romans.
69GoX TIL that Pluto was named by an 11 year old girl named Venetia Burney Phair
ANN4g TIL The subtitle for the 1880 novel Ben Hur is A Tale of the Christ. The movie poster for the 1959 film had "Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents A Tale of the Christ".
ADPkx TIL that in 2038, we will have another Y2K-style software issue with dates, as 32 bit software can't represent time past Tuesday, 19 January 2038. Times beyond that will be stored internally as a negative number, which these systems will interpret as Friday, 13 December 1901
rNOKd TIL Macaws have a bite pressure of around 600 psi. A German shepherds bite is around 235 psi, and a tiger shark is around 325 psi.