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TIL the band Radiohead derived their name from the actor who portrayed Ned Ryerson in Groundhog Day.

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PZWJ TIL Hummingbirds cannot walk or hop, they have evolved smaller feet to be lighter for more efficient flying
9YjlM TIL about 1 in 100,000,000 lobsters are "cotton-candy" blue.
WD0X TIL that a high school football coach got half the fans of his own team to cheer for the other team, because the other team was from a maximum-security juvenile correctional facility and didn’t have any fans of their own.
QJvLe TIL, that about 86 percent of animals and/or species on earth have not been discovered yet
OGLW6 TIL Komodo dragons can have so-called virgin births. As well as mating with males the species is parthenogenetic: in other words, the females can lay fertile eggs without any input from males. This will only reproduce identical young, however. For the species to continue to adapt, it needs to mate.