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I'll be away

I'm going away for the next week, so I won't be able to make posts from my laptop. I can send posts via SMS, but they won't have titles. So, for the next week, all posts will be without headers until I return and can edit them.

Today's FFD: Winston Churchill, one of the UK's greatest wartime leaders was actually said to have been an alcoholic

Biology

The octopus has the largest brain of any invertebrate, and have proven themselves to have an excellent memory. Jenifer Mather, a Canadian biologist, claims that they have a simple form of consciousness called primary consciousness. This means that they can "combine their perceptions with their memories to have a coherent feel for what's happening to them."

History

FFD: Just before Charles Lindbergh's famous flight in May of 1927, another pilot was caught puring sugar in to the gas tank of Lindbergh's plane, the "Spirit of St Louis."

Myths

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According to popular culture, daddy-longlegs are viscous spiders whose fangs are too small to bite you, but whose venom is so potent it would kill you if it could.

In reality, there are four different species commonly referred to as "daddy-longlegs."

In the United States, Americans use the term in reference to an arachnid called a harvestman. The harvestmen lives underground, and--more importantly--is not a spider, and therefore has no venom. Fangs, yes. Venom, no.

In Brittain, Canada, and some parts of South America, a daddy-longlegs is a type of cranefly, which is an insect.

And then there is the house spider, daddy-longlegs, whose venom has been proven as among the least potent of all spiders.

Lastly, there is also a plant nicknamed "daddy-longlegs," called Stylidium divaricatum. 

So, there are four daddy-longlegs. One is a spider, one is an arachnid, one is an insect, and one is a plant. None of these can kill you.