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TIL spider web silk was once used for crosshairs in rifles.

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b9mY7 TIL in 2013, Australian blogger Belle Gibson claimed to have beaten brain cancer using 'natural remedies' — selling a cookbook to cancer patients with all her 'secrets'. It was later revealed she never even had cancer, and was fined $410,000 by the Australian government for her deceptive practices.
Brxbe TIL that honeybees didn't exist in California until 1853, and even though bees in general are critical to the environment, honeybees specifically are far more important for agriculture of a few specific crops.
xV6eB TIL that Ryan Gosling after watching "Rambo" took some knives with him to school and threw them at other children.
LQmy9 TIL that the last living person who was at the Alamo during the battle died less than a month before the end of World War 1. He was not even a year old when the battle occurred.
yQkXl TIL that Idris Elba is also a talented house DJ