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

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Ap4l TIL In the 1996 Paralympics in Atlanta, 11 athletes were sent home after cheating their way into favorable classes. At the Sydney games in 2000, the Spanish mentally handicapped basketball team won the gold medal. It later turned out that 10 players were completely healthy
wLra8 TIL Hallmark created wrapping paper. In 1917, after running out of tissue paper, the Hall Brother's store in Kansas City resorted to selling colourful envelope liners. This proved to be successful and inspired them to create wrapping paper.
0dGVR TIL In 1987, Prince planned to release an album under the name Camille using his extensive androgynous range without any acknowledgement of his identity.
m1xyp TIL Tattoo needles don’t push ink down into the skin, the ink sits on the skin surface and the vacuum created as the needle exits the skin pulls the ink down into the hole it poked.
WXZ8 TIL, After bombing of Hiroshima some people moved to Nagasaki, 165 of these survived both the atomic bombings