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TIL Caterpillars “Melt” Almost Completely Before Growing Into Butterflies in the Chrysalis

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6DGQ TIL that ‘TASER’ is actually an acronym for 'Thomas A. Swift’s Electric Rifle’, named by the creator Jack Cover after his favorite childhood character and book.
xVlw7 TIL When the Pilgrims landed in America, they encountered a native that had crossed the Atlantic 6 times and spoke fluent English. One of the first things the natives asked for was beer.
KoL4 TIL that in 1922, people rioted over whether it was okay or not to wear a straw hat past the “socially acceptable” date of September 15, in New York. The riot lasted 8 days and led to multiple arrests.
NXD7b TIL in 2011 an emperor penguin named Happy Feet arrived in New Zealand after swimming about 2K miles from Antarctica. He is the second emperor penguin ever to be found in NZ (first was in 1967). At the beach he ate sand, likely mistaking it for snow, and needed 4.4 lbs of it removed from his stomach
DQ9Lr TIL: The Oldest Grocery Store in the Americas is in Quebec City