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TIL that there is a spider called the Darwin's bark spider whos web is 10x stronger than kevlar. it is the toughest biological material ever studied..

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TIL Anthony Rossi who founded Tropicana Products in 1945 was an Italian immigrant who arrived in the US with $25 and did not know English. He developed an orange juice pasteurization process to allow transport from the factory in Florida to as far away as New York starting in 1970.

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TIL that while serving together in WWII, Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling’s friend Melvin Levy ventured out to watch an aircraft drop off food crates. Levy was joking about where the food would fall when one of the crates landed on his head and decapitated him as Serling looked on in horror.

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TIL that the reticular activating system is the part of the brain that sorts through all the billions of pieces of information our senses take in and then allows through the important stuff. It is why after you a buy a red sedan, you now see red sedans everywhere when you didn't notice them before.

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TIL generations of Cornish and American miners believe in the Tommyknockers, small gnome-like men who live inside mines. Sometimes they favor the miners, and other times knocking on timbers to make them collapse. It was considered very bad luck not to leave cake for them at the end of the day.

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TIL that March 12th, 1990, over 60 disability rights activists abandoned their mobility aids and climbed, crawled, and edged up the 83 stone steps of the U.S Capitol, demanding the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which had been stalled in Congress. It was called the 'Capitol Crawl'.

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TIL an economy coffin is designed to drop a body into the grave then be reused, conserving the wood materials and allow for quicker body decomposition. It did not catch on.

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