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TIL that only about 1.5 percent of black widow bites are life-threatening (fatality isn't stated)

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GYbZG TIL that Turtles are omnivores and eat lots of plants - when they do this they are also eating the plants seeds. Many seeds are spread when turtles defecate. They also can carry seeds on their shells, often covered in algae.
4k9nX TIL French art critic Charles Baudelaire hated photography and thought it would be the death of art, saying "the photographic industry was the refuge of every would-be painter, every painter too ill-endowed or too lazy to complete his studies"
9YLkG TIL Quaker Oats fed disabled children radioactive oatmeal
ZA94 TIL there is a store in Alabama that only sells clothes, cameras, etc found in unclaimed baggage at airports
nWxmG TIL that the Eastern Roman Empire once sent troops to Ethiopia to support Ethiopia's invasion of Yemen