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TIL nobody died from a spider bite in australia in 40 years

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XEDR6 TIL that a man walked into a bar and was never seen again. He was not recorded to have left the bar according to security cameras.
oBlZr TIL Michigan has a small town named Zilwaukee, named so that people would confuse it with Milwaukee and end up settling there.
69eNX TIL it took 18 months for Microsoft to create the Windows Vista 4-second startup sound. The soundbite was picked from hours of audio recorded by King Crimson's guitarist Robert Fripp.
xVLxk TIL The Outsiders was written by a girl in high school, because she was unsatisfied with the YA books available at the time.
PY1ZJ TIL than an average NFL lasts 3 hours and 12 minutes, but if you tally up the time when the ball is actually in play, the action amounts to a mere 11 minutes