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TIL horses can grow mustaches

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4kv55 TIL that the words cannon, cane, candy, canister and canyon probably share the same Sumerian root which means "reed".
ANppa TIL only three single-letter .com domain names were registered before Internet pioneer Jon Postel registered the other 23 letters of the alphabet. IANA now holds these in reserve to prevent single entities from controlling a letter of the alphabet.
VMG6Z TIL about Kenneth Taylor and George Welch, the first two American pilots to get airborne during the attack on Pearl Harbor. Both were recommended for the Medal of Honor, but this was denied on the basis that they had “taken off without orders.” Together they shot down six Japanese planes.
W7ENL TIL There was once a bear so large that it had the potential to stare across at an adult human in the eye on all fours.
Y7g0B TIL in the 1935 Prince Edward Island election, 42.1% of voters voted for the Conservative party. However, because of their geographic distribution across the province, the Liberals still won 100% of the seats in the Legislative Assembly, which was a first for the entire Commonwealth.