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TIL; there have been no recorded deaths from spider bites in Australia since 1979

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BBZb TIL that Yuma, Arizona is the sunniest place in the United States and one of the sunniest in the world.
MxJV TIL there’s an abandoned cruise ship floating adrift in the north Atlantic.
DL7P TIL I learned that General Motors, Standard Oil, Firestone Tire, Mack Trucks, and Phillips Petroleum were all convicted of monopolizing the sale of buses and supplies to National City Lines and its subsidiaries in an effort to eliminate the competing electric trolley car.
grPJ7 TIL we know leafcutter bees are at least 30 million years old because we’ve found fossilized leaves that age with the telltale circles leafcutter bees make.
nW7G9 TIL: Papua New Guinea, a country in Oceania has one of the worlds highest crime rates.