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TIL Daddy Long Leg spiders are more closely related to ticks than spiders.

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b9O44 TIL the United States has military equipment stashed away in large caves in Norway so that if they need to defend them, the U.S. can just fly in troops and use the prepositioned equipment
Q7nE TIL that Stalin tried to kill Yugoslavian leader Tito 22 times. Tito then wrote him a letter reading “Stop sending people to kill me. If you don’t stop sending killers, I’ll send one to Moscow, and I won’t have to send a second.”
GAA51 TIL that in central Italy, there is a fountain that flows red wine 24-hours a day. It is free to everyone, except for drunkards and louts .
Eg8Jo TIL neanderthals are a different species from humans, but traces of neanderthal DNA means the species may have interbred
ag7L TIL: If you play a professional sport, you need to pay an income tax. That is, to each state you play against. For a Red Sox player, this means 17 different tax bills.