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TIL Things keep trying to evolve into crab through a process called Carcinisation

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dDenr TIL Jerry Zucker, director of Ghost (1990) didn't want Patrick Swayze or Whoopi Goldberg to audition, saying "over my dead body will Patrick Swayze ever play this role." Patrick ended up securing the part and helped change Jerry's mind on Whoopi Goldberg...the role she would win an academy for.
r5BM TIL that the largest known fossil spider is only about half the size of its modern relatives. (Meaning that the biggest spiders that exist today might be biggest spiders that have ever existed…)
YYPB TIL Chiquita Banana used to be called “United Fruit Company” And caused something called “The Banana Massacre”.
RaAw TIL that thanks to a 1997 Texas law, astronauts can vote from space on Election Day (via secure email to Johnson Space Center).
9wYB7 TIL - Jesuit Priest Athanasius Kircher has been compared to da Vinci as 'Master of a Hundred Arts'. Considered a founder of Egyptology, proposed the plague was spread by microorganism, andinventions attributed to him include a magnetic clock, various automatons and the first megaphone.