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TIL Special K is being considered by the scientific community to be a plausible treatment for depression

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MeGDb TIL that spiders can fly through still air for miles using earth's electric fields. The process is initiated by "Trichobothria", a particular kind of hair growing amidst many others on spider's bodies.
MynB TIL that up until 1978, the Mormon Church taught that blacks were once an evil race of Jews who were colored by God for their wickedness.
6E6GW Today I learned about the parrot who would warn their drug dealing owners when the police show up. After the parrot was detained by police, he took the 5th and didn't squawk a word.
lel7 TIL it gets too hot, not too cold, on the International Space Station
jyBn TIL A Texas lawyer killed himself as Dateline NBC waited outside his home to catch him in their child predator sting