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TIL: Spiders don’t jump using muscles. Instead, they control the blood pressure in their legs like a hydraulic system to propel them upwards.

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Grg7 TIL that sign languages vary dramatically between different countries. American Sign Language is related to French Sign Language, and signers of both can understand each other some, but British Sign Language is unintelligible to them.
l97 TIL that in 1973 a scientist sent healthy volunteers to mental institutions, telling them to fake one innocuous symptom and then act normally. All were diagnosed with psychiatric disorders and held for an average of 19 days.
Nby8 TIL: Mountains on Titan, a moon of Saturn, must all be named after mountains in J.R.R. Tolkein’s Lord of the Rings
10br TIL there was a drug made in the 1920s for alcoholism that would cause the effect of a hangover directly after drinking alcohol.
6VNZ TIL there is a service called shitsenders.com that will anonymously ship your enemies a quart or gallon of cow, elephant or gorilla shit, your choice.