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TIL 30-ft-long Manatees called Steller’s Sea Cows lived into modernity… within 27 years of being found by European hunters, they were extinct.

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0wVPj TIL English words of Hindi or Urdu origin include bandana, bangle, bungalow, cheetah, cushy, dinghy, juggernaut, jungle, khaki, loot, punch (the drink), pundit, pyjamas, shampoo, thug, and typhoon
ODN6 TIL Singapore Airlines Flight 21 (formerly the worlds longest scheduled flight) was so long, that the airline had to install special lockers on the aircraft to store corpses incase anybody died en route.
kObXW TIL that Armenian cucumber is not actually a cucumber. It's also known as "snake melon" in English, and is a muskmelon like cantaloupe. It's called "qithaa'" in Classical Arabic (mentioned in the Qu'ran re:the Promised Land), "Arab/Palestinian cucumber" in Hebrew, and "fakoos" in both languages.
0wNPR TIL that a female rattlesnake had been isolated in captivity for 5 years before giving birth to offspring, indicating that she had stored the sperm from a mate for at least that many years.
PKLn TIL that 3 people tried to inform PepsiCo about the secret formula of Coke-A-Cola. Pepsi then informed Coke, and the FBI.