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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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9YVap TIL, There has never been a mummy found inside of the Great Pyramids, there are also 0 hieroglyphs within any the Pyramids
4ky8a TIL that circus clowns often use “Clown Lingo” to communicate without breaking character. A “Boss Clown” coordinates the group, a “Carpet Clown” works among the audience, and “Clown Alley” is their prep area. “Stars and Stripes Forever” signals them to distract the crowd during emergencies.
69yX TIL: that Johnny Depp, Tom Cruise, Jason Patric, Keanu Reeves and John Travolta were considered for the role of Jim Morrison in the movie “The Doors” - Travolta was so popular with the original band that they even considered putting the band back together with Travolta on vocals.
d89x7 TIL about Wank Week, a British documentary series dedicated to increasing public awareness and dispelling any taboos surrounding masturbation. A press release even promised that it would reveal "if the only things allowed to be stiff in Britain are upper lips". It was, unsurprisingly, canceled.
5Vwjn TIL about Oscar Micheaux’ 1920 film WITHIN OUR GATES which is the earliest known surviving feature directed by an African American as well as one of the oldest surviving rebuttals to the racism of D. W. Griffith’s film BIRTH OF A NATION