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TIL that paper clip was invented in 1899 and it hasn’t been improved upon since.

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oBOoR TIL, when disco died out, The Village People tried to remake themselves into a New Wave band. Their new album climbed no higher than 138 on the Billboard 200.
PR5g TIL that many male spiders tie up the legs of females with silk in a preemptive attempt to avoid being eaten by her during or after sex.
8a7E4 TIL that cats aren’t actually “playing” with their prey. What they are actually doing, is tiring them out so that they can bite the preys nape (back of neck) without risk of being bitten or injured themselves.
xoE0 TIL Bruce Willis bought 12,000 girl scout cookies from his daughter and sent them to troops in the middle east and sailors among the USS John F Kennedy
5YpeR TIL Chris McCandless's "Into the Wild" bus in Alaska was removed from Denali after tourists kept getting severely injured or dying while trying to visit it.