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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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gRZ8 TIL Heath Ledger was an accomplished chess player and won the Western Australia’s Junior Chess Championship at 10-years old.
AD6p7 TIL: Human hair rejected by wigmakers and sent from hair salons is being used to create oil adsorbing booms for ocean oil spills. Hair can adsorb 3-9 times its own weight in oil.
8GVX TIL that women who swallow semen are less likely to develop preeclampsia.
BgEdD TIL it's been over 10 years since the last EF5 tornado
69Pw8 TIL about episode called "Episode 210" of the TV show 30 Rock because a title was never added before the 2007 strike began.