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TIL golden sac spiders caused a recall on the 2009-2010 Mazda 6. They are attracted to the smell of gasoline and could weave webs blocking the fuel tank's ventilation system.

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Oonm6 TIL apes don't ask questions. While apes can learn sign language and communicate using it, they have never attempted to learn new knowledge by asking humans or other apes. They don't seem to realize that other entities can know things they don't. It's a concept that separates mankind from apes.
R5RL7 TIL that JF Kennedy was a very sick man, suffering from an autoimmune disease and a myriad other illnesses for which he took copious amounts of drugs and that would have likely caused his early demise had he not been assassinated
QNDna TIL that "Hero Rats" can be used as a failsafe to check for tuberculosis at a rate of 100 samples per twenty minutes, a task that takes human microbiologist four days.
prKO TIL the Chinese wrote about the Roman Empire in the 3rd Century
JYRNl TIL "five golden rings" may have originally referred to pheasants, rather than jewelry, so the sequence of birds is uninterrupted.