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TIL of Carcinisation. The odd phenomena where things keep evolving into crabs.

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Oo1e6 TIL that the British band The Zombies split before their song "Time of the Season" became a hit in the U.S. in 1969, so a promoter put together two bands and sent them on tour as The Zombies. One of the fake Zombies included Frank Beard and Dusty Hill, who later became two-thirds of ZZ Top.
5VxDp TIL that the conical hood is called a Capirote that is originally used by Catholic Penitants dating its use as far back to the Inquisition times before it was appropriated by a certain Wizard Klub. It is still being used today by penitants in parts of Spain Mexico and Guatemala during Holy Week.
nW8LP TIL the dismissive term "pish posh", meaning something between “Don’t be a silly goose” and “Gimme a break, dude”, has been around since the 16th century and has nothing to do with "posh", meaning fancy. Also, lexicography can be funny!
D1EVD TIL Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo was partly due to a volcanic eruption in Indonesia. Electrically charged volcanic ash short-circuited Earth's atmosphere in 1815, causing global poor weather. Rainy and muddy conditions helped the Allied army defeat Napoleon.
kOwb7 TIL of John Von Neumann, a mathematician polymat that invented computers (the architecture in every digital computer today), a precursor theory of DNA without having been a biologist, played a pivotal in creating the Atom bomb, and laid out the mathematical framework for quantum mechanics.