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TIL: that of the three department stores “Wanamaker's, Saks,and Klein's” referenced in the hit 1950’s musical Guys and Dolls only Saks remains

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J1y8V TIL Diving bell spider is the only species of spider that spends almost all its life underwater, including resting, catching and eating prey, mating, egg laying, and overwintering. It only briefly surfaces to replenish its oxygen supply.
9w4Xr TIL in 1956, Ray Charles started popularizing Wurlitzer and Rhodes electric pianos because he didn’t trust the timing and quality of acoustic pianos.
EJWd TIL that the feeling we get when we see something so cuddly that we want to squeeze it actually has a name. It’s called “cute aggression”.
vrMK TIL: There are giant concrete arrows built every 10 miles that span from NYC to San Francisco which were used by USPS Pilots to trace their way across America
4XgX6 TIL that as a white belt, Paul Walker told his BJJ coach that he would get his black belt "even if he needed to get it in his coffin", shortly after Walker's death, that same coach awarded Walker his black belt and told his father he could put it in his coffin.