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TIL that there are currently more identified arachnid species than there are of all vertebrae combined

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v1AMr TIL that Wayne’s World was directed by a woman, Penelope Spheeris, who also directed Black Sheep, Little Rascals, and music videos for Megadeth. She won a Grammy for her extended “Bohemian Rhapsody” sequence from Wayne’s World.
b9jvQ Today I learned that World of Tanks partnered with Belavia to make a World of Tanks plane
9dB7 TIL that Target has a doppelganger in Australia called Target Australia. They have the same logo and sell the same merchandise as the American Target Corp yet they are entirely separate and unrelated companies.
ADQ5l TIL that in 1916, a silent comedy film was made about "Coke Ennyday" a detective with a fondness for cocaine made as a parody of Sherlock Holmes. He wears a bandolier carrying syringes filled with the drug and frequently injects himself with massive amounts of cocaine to solve crimes.
4Dg TIL Some Tibetan Monks can increase their body temperature so drastically through meditation, that they can cause wet sheets placed on their body to steam in rooms as low as 40 degrees Fahrenheit, where most people would go into uncrontrollable shivering and perhaps die