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TIL that the geometric texture on scifi spaceships is called Greeble

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Z8DEY TIL that because of their tendency to take the form of whatever container they're in, a study was conducted over whether cats should be classified as liquids or solids. It later won the Ig Noble Prize.
9YGZG TIL every Shih Tzu alive today can be traced to one of 14 dogs — seven males and seven females — that were used to rebuild the breed when China underwent its Communist Revolution.
X0xnr TIL that Elyesa Bazna was a Turkish spy who worked for the Nazis during World War II but provided so much intel they distrusted him and ignored most of it. The Allies failed to catch him, but he was eventually arrested after the war when it turned out that the Nazis had paid him with fake money.
ZrPp TIL that there is a bell in Oxford University library that hasn’t stopped ringing for 175 years. Researchers are afraid that opening the bell would ruin an experiment to see how long it will last.
9YDEm TIL of the 2008 K2 disaster, where in one day 11 climbers lost their lives on the second highest mountain in the world.