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TIL an occupied house in Kansas contained over 2,000 brown recluse spiders. Amazingly, the residents were never bitten by them

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d87vj TIL Princess Sophie (of a minor German principality) married a Russian prince— soon after he was crowned emperor, she overthrew him and crowned herself Empress Catherine the Great. She annexed much of Poland (then ruled by her former lover), helped modernized Russia & started colonizing Alaska.
vrYK TIL Weird Al Yankovic turned down a $5 million beer endorsement because he said “ a lot of my fans are young and impressionable”.
Bj5d TIL of Baker’s Math: flour weight is always expressed as 100%, and sets the foundation for every other ingredient- 66% water, 2% salt, etc.
rRpKo TIL, in an effort to set the world record for the longest drift, BMW used one M5 to refuel another M5 (5 times) by drifting alongside it
N7ajP TIL Sturgis tourism dept measures the number of Bike Week visitors not by counting bikes or people, but by weighing the TRASH after the event