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TIL heterochrony – the mechanism by which giraffes acquired their long necks and us our big brains

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k5w7 TIL Milk Duds were originally supposed to be perfectly round. Since making them perfectly round was found to be impossible, the pieces became known as “duds”, and the name stuck.
5d4R TIL Canadian botanist Charles Budd Robinson was killed due to his bad language skill. When he asked a village boy to chop down a coconut (kelapa), he mistakenly asked the boy to chop down a head (kepala). The villagers mistook him for a headhunter and killed him.
4kPNN TIL Sheb Wooley's song "The Purple People Eater" was initially rejected by MGM Records. However, the song resonated with the young people at MGM, who would gather in a group of up to 50 people to listen to it during lunch. Afterwards, MGM reconsidered and released the song.
Y7mEP TIL we can eat some species of jellyfish.