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TIL Spiderwebs use static electricity to reach out and catch insects that fly too close to them

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n5Kb TIL That 1/3 of Russian soldiers in World War One were not issued rifles, and were told to pick up a weapon when one of their comrades were killed.
78WaZ TIL Darwin, Australia was named after Charles Darwin but before he published his theory of evolution. Captain Wickham sailed with Darwin during HMS Beagle's first voyage, then he named the area after his old crewmate during the second voyage when he surveyed Northern Australia.
8nW8 TIL On Sept 11, 1997, a man claiming to be an ex-Area 51 employee frantically called into a radio station. During the call, the radio station suffered a satellite failure.
kOgK1 TIL a study found that people had empathy for an attacked victim suffering a broken leg, multiple lacerations and unconscious in the following order, most empathy to least empathy: a one-year-old human, a puppy, an adult dog, a 30-year-old man.
4kK5g TIL jurists in certain countries of Africa formerly colonized by the British still wear white, old-fashioned judicial wigs