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TIL of retronyms, words created to differentiate between two words, where previously no clarification was required, like acoustic guitar.

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j6xQX TIL that feet and hands are very similar structurally. Each finger and toe has 3 bones and each thumb and big toe has 2 bones.
LkkJP Lots of animals reproduce asexually. Why not humans?
wgM7 TIL of a piece of music that the Vatican did not want copied down. Doing so was punishable by Excommunication. Mozart memorized it by ear at 14 and the ban was lifted
8aWMV TIL Gary Larson apologized for the Far Side strip Hell's Video Store; it has nothing but copies of Ishtar. After seeing Ishtar he said "There are so many cartoons for which I should probably write an apology, but this is the only one which compels me to do so."
0ZGp TIL that Sriracha sauce (“rooster sauce”) founder Huy Fong started his company in a small office in Los Angeles’ Chinatown, hand-grinding peppers and selling the sauce to friends - he now runs it out of a 655,000 square foot HQ.