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TIL about Kukulcania arizonica, aka the “Arizona black hole spider.” They ensnare insects by creating a velcro-like netting, inside a crevice, often on the wall of a building.

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JYlPk TIL Smokejumpers are specially trained wildland firefighters who provide an initial attack response on remote wildland fires.
ODJ4 TIL there is a 2002 movie called Wolves of Wall Street, in which young, good-looking brokers turn into werewolves.
MZXb TIL that planting swastikas in the forests of Germany was “a fad among National Socialist foresters” during the Nazi period and nobody noticed them until decades later.
0w8Ep TIL of Chartreuse, a storied French liqueur with a recipe that dates back to the early 1600s. The recipe originated in an old alchemical textbook presented to an order of monks by an artillery marshal of the French army. The original order of monks retains brewing rights to this day.
vgX8 TIL that babies are believed to naturally follow the philosophy of solipsism, where the only certain fact is the existence of one’s own mind. Eventually, babies realize that other people have experiences like them and reject solipsism.