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TIL that when spiders ingest nanotubes, they weave silk reinforced with carbon. The spiders can make webs capable of holding humans.

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0wXD5 TIL that when actress/singer Vanessa Williams was born, her parents announced her birth with "Here she is: Miss America." In 1984, she became the first African American to be crowned Miss America.
YrPP TIL that taste is spread throughout the mouth, and the idea that you taste sweet or sour on different areas of the tongue is based on a misinterpretation of a graph reporting one experiment in 1901
4Xnm5 TIL the 1992 Joe Pesci comedy My Cousin Vinny is praised by legal experts as being one if the most accurate film depictions of courtroom procedure and trial strategy. It is even cited in textbooks on law.
v1JeR TIL that in 1918, during WWI, the Germans protested the use of the Model 97 shotgun "trenchbroom" by the USA, arguing it violated the rules of the Hague Conventions. The Americans replied almost immediately that the protest was ironic coming from the guys using flamethrowers and poison gas.
max TIL That in Australia Jedi Faith Masters outnumber Scientologists 30:1