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TIL not all parts of a spider web are sticky. Only the silk used for the intricate catching spirals are dotted with glue, so spiders know which areas to avoid

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PYgJw TIL that the game Snakes and Ladders originated in ancient India and was called Moksha Patam. The morality lesson of the game was that a person can attain salvation (Moksha) through doing good, whereas by doing evil, one will inherit rebirth to lower forms of life.
KYdVR TIL Bill Haast has the record for surviving the most deadly snake bites at 172. Haast disliked the record because being bitten was not something to be admired for. Haast's immunity has led to his blood being used as anti-venom substitutes and saved more than 20 lives.
X04EQ TIL: Grapefruits were invented in 1693. A man named Captain Shaddock shipped some pomelo seeds to the West Indies, he planted seeds next to some orange trees. After some cross pollination, the grapefruit was born.
woJ9M TIL pentagrams have been found on Sumerian pottery dating back to 3500 BCE
yVjNe TIL about the artist August Natterer, who suffered from Schizophrenia, On 1 April 1907, he had a hallucination of the Last Judgment, in which he saw "10,000 images [flash by] in half an hour." He then spent his life creating art from the images he saw, under the pseudonym 'Neter'.