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TIL of the word “aptronym”, used for a personal name aptly or peculiarly suited to its owner, and its opposite, “inaptronym”. Examples of inaptronyms are Frank Beard, the only member of ZZ Top to not have a beard, and Donald Black, white supremacist.

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xVDog TIL Turkey eggs have a richer taste than chicken eggs and were considered a delicacy by the Navajo. They are rare today only because turkeys do not yield as many eggs and cost more to house and feed.
XOnD TIL there’s a word for the “seemingly spiteful behavior shown by inanimate objects”: resistentialism
wLWJ TIL Curiosity’s minimum uplink rates to Earth are 160bits/sec and 800bits/sec, depending on the antenna it is targeting on Earth.
VBgPB TIL that in the late 1960s the construction of the Aswan Dam was going to lead to the loss of many Ancient Egyptian structures, so a coalition of 50 countries came together to dismantle the structures and reassemble them out of harm's way. This led to the creation of World Heritage Sites.
ZYMR TIL Stress doesn’t cause stomach ulcers, a bacterium does. It took many years for an entrenched medical profession to accept it, but two Australian scientists won the Nobel Prize for this discovery, for Physiology or Medicine, in 2005.