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TIL in the United States, there hasn't been a reported death due to a black widow bite in 100 years.

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Z8gGR TIL Emily Blunt was offered the MCU role of Black Widow, but she declined it
Y4LA TIL Since the release of ‘Captain Phillips’, there has been controversy over its portrayal of Phillips, with several crew members claiming that he was not the hero presented in the film, and that he was at least partly at fault for an “insistence on being fast and making money.
Lk8vr TIL that 1000's of Sperm Whales were killed each year to make car automatic transmission fluid. The practice was only halted in the 1970s by the Endangered Species Act.
ONja TIL that the U.S has detonated 1054 nuclear bombs in tests
p8rLA TIL about Richard Francis Burton, a British "explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer, and diplomat." He spoke 29 languages, translated the Kama Sutra, and shocked Victorian England with his essays about homosexuality.