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TIL No one really knows where strawberries got their name

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7D0p TIL Steven Spielberg asked to do a James Bond movie, but was refused. When he told George Lucas he was going to ask again, Lucas said “I’ve got something better than that. It’s called Raiders of the Lost Ark.”
OoMXa TIL spiders can fly hundreds of miles using the Earth’s electrical field to launch themselves
0jm1 TIL that Buzz Aldrin’s first words on the Moon were “Beautiful view.”
emZb TIL a victim of sexual abuse tracked down her abuser, her father, to help put in him jail. It took her 9 years but she never gave up.
9wrA6 TIL that, during production of Thor: The Dark World, Marvel decided that the Aether and previous MacGuffins would be used as Infinity Stones. In order to give each stone its own color, the red Orb in Guardians of the Galaxy was changed to purple in post-production.