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TIL The Sydney Funnel-web spider has fangs larger than a brown snake’s.

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97pG TIL a London skyscraper’s curved glass facade caused a series of fires - reflected and concentrated sunlight spontaneously ignited the carpets in adjacent businesses and melted parts of cars parked nearby
6XEZ TIL Adolf Hitler wrote admiringly of the Chinese and Japanese. “They belong to ancient civilizations, and I admit freely that their past history is superior to our own. They have the right to be proud of their past, just as we have the right to be proud [of ours].”
j656R TIL Glow & Darkness was a TV Series that Starred Denise Richards, Jane Seymour, Joan Collins, Steve Byers etc that was filmed around the world but the Producer was arrested and the show was confiscated by the courts in Spain so never aired
P1nVO TIL you can have a negative magnitude earthquake. Magnitude calcs are based on logarithmic scale so a ten-fold drop in amplitude decreases the magnitude by 1. If an amplitude of 20 mm as measured on seismic signal corresponds to a magnitude 2 earthquake then 1000 times less (0.02 mm) is mag -1.
wL658 TIL that the letter Q is the only letter of the alphabet not used in any of the names of the 52 States of the U.S.A.