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Today I Learned that male Spiders eat females too.

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DOjr TIL during WWI Belgium opened their sluices to allow seawater to flow in and flood their country to prevent German occupation. They held their front for the duration of the war.
9PD TIL that athletes can compete as independent Olympians (not under a country’s flag) at the Olympic Games
R7gx8 TIL that after a male Darwin’s bark spider fertilizes a female, he plugs up the female’s genitals with a mating plug. Using silk, the female traps the male so that he’s stuck to her genitals, saving him for when she’s hungry.
QJme6 TIL that a KGB agent and a CIA agent became friends while trying to recruit each other; they knew the other was a spy and just didn’t talk about it
jmwR TIL a baby mouse is called a “pinkie,” which means “Pinky and the Brain” finally makes sense.