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TIL Canary Islands are actually named after dogs, not canaries. Their name comes from the latin "Canariae Insulae", which means "islands of dogs"

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oDYL TIL In 2008, two researchers, a linguist and a sound engineer, found “the perfect male voice” to be a combination of Iron’s and Alan Rickman’s voices based on a sample of 50 voices. Coincidentally, the two actors played brothers in the Die Hard series of films.
neZO7 TIL Schrödinger's Cat was a thought experiment designed to be so absurd that people would realize that's not how quantum mechanics work.
oR51r TIL that the "!" symbol, known as the exclamation mark, was originally called a "note of admiration."
aWJJ TIL Tersicoccus phoenicis is a bacteria only known to exist at two locations on Earth, were independently found in geographically separated spacecraft assembly clean room facilities nearly 4,000 km (2,500 mi) apart.
VB1Wk TIL that it is completely legal to take an entire raw fish on a plane as your personal item.