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TIL contrary to popular belief, orange does, in fact, rhyme. It rhymes with Blorenge (a mountain in Wales) and sporange (a sac where spores are made).

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lond7 TIL WWE has trademarked the bible reference “3:16”. Wrestler Stone Cold Steve Austin used the phrase to taunt the born-again Christian, Jake Roberts, following a match and it became a hit. “Austin 3:16” went on to become Steve Austin’s signature catchphrase and T-Shirt.
4Xd7R TIL about the "Grievance Studies affair" where three academics produced bogus papers to expose how lax academic journals had become. One paper that was accepted and published by the Journal Affilia included long excerpts from Hitlers Mein Kampf where the word "Jew" was replaced with "White Man".
awWAy TIL Canadian researchers developed an implant which restores the movement of patients with advanced Parkinson's disease who have trouble walking, freezing on the spot and falling. By electrical stimulation to the spine via the implant, the signal reawakens the feedback from legs to brain.
kOkM4 TIL a Magnetar Starquake occured on Dec.27, 2004 that would have probably registered Mag.23 on the Richter scale, blinding satellites and ionizing Earth's upper atmosphere. Coincidentally a day earlier, Dec. 26, saw the worst tsunami in modern history
166nd TIL about Shiranui, or Unknown Fire, an atmospheric ghost light seen in the water off Kyushu, Japan. When approached, the lights appear to get farther away. They were formerly believed to be the lamps of the Dragon God, and fishing was prohibited when they were seen.