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

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wR11 TIL Philadelphia has a section of railway, home to a heroin epidemic so bad, that even the police have trouble going there due to the horrible conditions.
JlgQ TIL Danny Devito was the executive producer on Pulp Fiction
W8D9 TIL there is an algae that can destroy a human’s ability to make memories. It hangs out in red tides.
74Kp TIL that since 1617, breaches of etiquette at Oxford University have been punished by making the offender drink up to four pints of beer in one go.
EV8p TIL that contrary to popular notion, historians have never been able to find any mummies or kingly remains inside the Great Pyramid of Egypt.