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TIL The Canary Islands are named from the Latin word for dog and not the bird!

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mPyE TIL that discoveries of 19th century spear points in freshly killed whales in the 90’s suggested that at least some individuals reached 200 years old.
vN6B TIL During IBM Watson’s Jeapordy Game, it stored all 15 terabytes of it’s knowledge in RAM, including every page of Wikipedia in existence.
yZKV TIL there was an ancient highly sought after Roman spice called ‘Silphium’ that was so valuable and desired that it was worth its weight in silver coins; however, this demand led to its over-harvesting, which is thought to have contributed to its eventual disappearance and extinction by 68AD.
R7MJ8 TIL of Gino Bartali, a cyclist who used his fame as a winner of the Tour de France to smuggle counterfeit documents hidden inside his bicycle through Nazi checkpoints in WWII Italy under the guise of training. These documents allowed as many as 800 Jews to escape persecution by the Nazis.
ne7xY TIL that porgs were in The Last Jedi because it was easier to create a new species than to digitally remove the puffins that actually lived on the island