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TIL of the Okapi, a cousin of the giraffe, with stripes like a zebra on its hind legs and scent glands on the bottom of its feet to track other neighboring okapi.

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M760B TIL Mr. Deeds is a remake of a 1936 film titled "Mr. Deeds goes to Town"
nbGP Today I learned that the spikes at the end of Stegosaurus’s tail are called “thagomizers” because of a Far Side comic, published in 1982, that featured a cave man pointing to a diagram of a Stegosaurus tail with the caption “Now this end is called the Thagomizer–after the late Thag Simmons.”
ReDj TIL that an island in the Pacific worships an American pilot as a deity after his plane crashed on the island in the 1930s. They believe he lives in a volcano on the island and will one day shower them with riches.
PYjkw TIL that since the beginning of history the economy has been increasing on a trend that (theoretically) leads to infinity sometime in 2047
W7xm9 TIL about The Stroop effect, our tendency to experience difficulty naming a physical color when it is used to spell the name of a different color.