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TIL Rachel Reynolds has been a model on The Price is Right for over 20 years and is the only cast member remaining from the Bob Barker era

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4XEQR TIL that the battle of Stalingrad was the largest battle in modern military history with over 2 million combatants
QNEoX TIL that Sark is one of the few remaining places in the world where cars are banned from roads and only tractors and horse-drawn vehicles are allowed, and that in 2011, Sark was designated as the first Dark Sky Island in the world.
mPwP TIL that today is the birthday of the New York subway. The subway system officially opened on Oct 27 1904 making 110 years old. It was the first rapid-transit subway system in America.
OoWva TIL that the jumping spider, Nefertiti, was launched to the ISS to observe if it could catch prey in microgravity. It succeeded in catching prey by learning to walk slowly, rather than leaping, as this species usually does. It survived reentry and readjusted to full gravity before its natural death.
wo6k1 TIL that in Sparta, Ancient Greece, they had “shouting elections”. Candidates would take turns walking into assembly rooms, and judges would compare the volume of the crowd’s shouts and cheers of approval to determine the winner.