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TIL the male orb-web spider has detachable genitalia such that he can flee while simultaneously finishing intercourse so that his mate won’t eat him.

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69gEJ TIL Susan Backlinie the actress who played the 1st shark attack victim in the movie Jaws, wasnt actually injured by the harness as was heavily rumoured to be the reason for her realistic screams in fact it was due to being shocked after intentionally not being warned when she would start to be moved
e0pNE TIL that the five-mile-long Mackinac Bridge has a program that sends a crew member to drive people across if they're too afraid to drive themselves. It gets between 1,200 to 1,400 calls every year
lo1Zr TIL: A startup company is teaching crows to clean up cigarette butts for peanuts.
R7wVa TIL Huge warthog getting "spa treatment" from mongooses in win-win symbiotic relationship called mutualism. Warthogs living in Uganda have learned to rid themselves of annoying ticks by seeking out the grooming services of some accommodating neighbors: a group of mongooses looking for snacks.
R5064 TIL of the Dachau trials in Slovenia, where by show trials the communist regime accused 31 survivors of the Dachau concentration camp that they survived it because they were Nazi spies and worked with western powers against socialism. 10 were executed, 20 were sent to a forced labour camp