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TIL that spider silk is stronger than bone and half as strong as steel

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Kb6G TIL That police shot a 92-year-old woman after getting a search warrant based off false information that she had sold an informant drugs. After shooting her, they planted drugs in her house. The entire Atlanta narcotics division was either tried and jailed or transferred because of this incident.
pYNwO TIL That the singer of the Peanut Butter Jelly Time song has always been credited to the wrong person.
Lkba9 TIL Osama Bin Laden was an Elephant that went on a two year rampage killing 27 people
dDAb7 TIL Berry Oakley, bassist of American rock band "The Allman Brothers Band", died in a motorcycle accident in 1972, just three blocks from where his fellow bandmate Duane Allman also died in a motorcycle accident the year before. Both Berry and Duane were 24 at the time of their deaths.
kEpW TIL In her autobiography, Ethel Merman had a chapter on her fourth and final marriage. The chapter entitled “My Marriage to Ernest Borgnine” consisted of one blank page.