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TIL spoonerisms are named after an actual person; The reverand Spooner. And that a spoonerism is quite often comical.

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PYJjV TIL about the Geoduck. It's not a pokemon! It's a clam that looks like... well...
5YPbn TIL of Kelly, a dolphin whose trainers gave her fish for bringing them litter/dead gulls to clean her pool. She started hiding fish under a rock in her pool, then used fish to lure gulls which she brought to her trainers to get more fish. She taught her calf the strategy, who taught more calves.
wKlW TIL John Aaron, a NASA flight controller, not only saved Apollo 12 after it was struck by lightning, but also saved the Apollo 13 crew by developing a unique power up sequence to allow a safe reentry.
gk74 TIL in 1997, an “anonymous party” sold 1.5 million shares of Apple stock, causing Apple to hit a 12-year low in stock price. That event lead to then-CEO Gil Amelio stepping down and placing Steve Jobs as new CEO of Apple. That anonymous party was later revealed to be Steve Jobs himself.
e05rb TIL Nora Ephron (once married to Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein) would regularly reveal the identity of informant Deep Throat to anyone who asked her. No one, apart from her sons, believed her.