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TIL Giant tarantulas keep tiny frogs as symbiosis. Insects will eat the burrowing tarantulas’ eggs - so the spiders protect the frogs from predators, and in return the frogs eat the insects.

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PYQnE TIL Sogen Kato was thought to be the oldest man in Tokyo up until it was discovered he had died at the age of 79 in 1978. His family kept his death secret for his pension. This lead to a huge search for all persons over 100 years. Japan couldn't locate 234,354 supposed centenarians.
mxnLO TIL that Olivia de Haviland and Joan Fontaine were sisters and lifelong rivals. They were born 15 months apart and were rivals as kids. When Joan won an Oscar against her sister in 1942, she ignored Olivia’s congratulations. 5 years later Olivia did the same to Joan when she won.
b6RVN TIL in the United States, as soon as a baby is born, hospitals start billing the baby for the care they receive. Since they technically become their own entity/person at birth, they are charged separately from the parent.
VBMk8 TIL that the possibility of your parents having another child that is an exact copy of you is extremely slim (1: 8,38 million), but it is in fact a real one. It is possible to get a clone sibling.
rNQay TIL demand for the five July dates of Michael Jackson's Bad tour in 1988 in London at Wembley Stadium exceeded 1.5 million, enough to fill the 72,000-capacity venue 20 times. Jackson went on to perform seven sold-out shows at Wembley for a total audience of 504,000.