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TIL The last individual of a species is called an "Endling" - when it dies, the species is extinct.

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mxZKO TIL Donald Goerke was tasked with developing a canned pasta that would appeal to children. His team reportedly considered pasta in the shapes of baseballs, cowboys, spacemen and stars before settling on the "O" shape. He became known as "The Daddy-O of SpaghettiOs."
awYB9 TIL Australian $50 note typo spelling mistake printed 46 million times.
P14lO TIL in 1952, more than 100,000 U.S. Army troops descended on Lampasas, Texas as part of Operation Longhorn, a military exercise that trained soldiers how to retake a town from communist invaders
9YL8G TIL the flag of Zeeland in the Netherlands has a lion in the waves and represents the region's constant struggle against the ocean
v1o8 TIL There is a german beer that won the right in court to be called Fucking Hell. “…much to the irritation of the Austrian village of Fucking.”