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TIL Swans have more than 20,000 feathers!

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VM1yQ TIL The aversion of most predators toward hunting honey badgers has led to the suggestion that the countershaded coats of cheetah cubs evolved in imitation of the honey badger's colouration, which warns off predators.
Y7JKv TIL the name of the mineral 'Xenotime' (originally 'kenotime' - meaning "vainglory" in greek) is making fun of a chemist who prematurely claimed to have found a new chemical element in the mineral
kOgld TIL that Tim Smith, founder of the band "Cardiac Arrest", eventually suffered a heart attack.
grlvL TIL about the South Korean arcade game Boong-Ga Boong-Ga. The object of the game is to score points by spanking or performing kancho, poke the anus, on a model of a human posterior embedded in the game's cabinet. A plastic finger is attached to the machine for players to perform the latter
9Y5w6 TIL about randomart in ssh. It generates ASCII art from ssh keys. SSH keys are long strings of characters, and they are easy to verify with a computer, but difficult for humans to verify visually. If you regularly ssh to a server, it's anticipated that you'd notice any changes to the picture.