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TIL that two men led a team of 80 people to collect over 1.2 million golden orb spiders, milk them for their silk, and create the rarest textile on earth: a golden silk cape

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DRZg TIL a restaurant manager at Disneyland Paris killed himself in 2010 and scratched a message on a wall saying “Je ne veux pas retourner chez Mickey” which translates to “I don’t want to work for Mickey any more.”
KOWWw TIL that John Allen Chau, an American missionary, was killed in 2018 by the Sentinelese, a self-isolated group of indigenous people who live on North Sentinel Island. When attempting to recover the body, authorities saw tribesmen with bows and arrows on the shore and turned their boat back.
4BXN TIL If in a car accident, you can file a ‘diminished value claim’ against the party at fault. This extra amount recoups the loss in resale value that inevitably occurs after any repairs are made, but is not automatically included until a specific request is made by you or your attorney.
P1xae TIL that at the time of The Titanic’s sinking, a magazine story about a ship sinking from an iceberg collision in the Atlantic was out in circulation. The author of this story Thornton Jenkins Hains, was writing under a pseudonym after having been disgraced in society for involvement in a murder.
GA9QN TIL about Rabbi Sy Dresner, a advisor and friend to Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. In 1964, at a conference of rabbis , Dresner received an urgent telegram for assistance of clergy from MLK to help protest in Florida. 17 Rabbis got on a bus immediately and went down and led prayers during a swim-in