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

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wLO6W TIL that the character of Mark in Tommy Wiseau's movie The Room is named after Matt Damon. Despite being a huge fan of Damon, Wiseau couldn't remember his actual name.
XEQmP TIL that Estonian, despite being an finno-urgric language that’s closely related to Finnish, borrowed about 1/3 of it vocabulary from Germanic language (german and low Saxon)
w4QP TIL that Cape Canaveral has the area code “3-2-1”, to resemble the countdown sequence for rocket launches occurring in the area.
l7LNB TIL Poland's cities of Warsaw and Poznan utilize teams of live mollusks to detect impurities in drinking water at 50 discrete water treatment plants. When 4 or more mussels are detected to have closed (using magnetic sensors) the water supply shuts off.
kE05 TIL that hitting objects with your penis (flacid, half erect) in The Netherlands has it’s own word. Swaffelen. (Swaffeling)