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TIL the word Orangutan is derived from the Malay words orang (person) and hutan (forest). It's entirely co-incidental that they have orange fur.

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WkA04 TIL Darwin never used the word "evolution" in his book On the Origin of Species, he instead called the process "descent with modification". He only used the term "evolved" once, as the last word of the last sentence of the book.
8XGb TIL A pen knife is so named because it was used for sharpening a quill to make a pen nib
D1ZgP TIL as a kid, Ice-T had his bike stolen. He told his father about it; he simply shrugged and said: "Well, then, you ain't got no bike." Ice-T then stole parts from various bicycles and assembled "three or four weird-looking, brightly-painted bikes" from the parts. His father never even noticed.
E1Law Today I learned Buffalo is a complete sentence, no matter how many times it is in a sentence, from 1 to infinity....
5prB TIL of Larry Abshier, a US soldier in the Korean War who defected to North Korea because he was caught smoking pot. He lived with four other American defectors and was cast in several North Korean films where he became a celebrity.