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TIL - term "pachyderm", commonly used to describe elephants, rhinoceroses, tapirs, and hippopotamuses is obsolete and no longer recognized.

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loQJ7 TIL about a species of extremophile bacteria that was only ever found in two spacecraft clean rooms, located 4000 km apart. In one of them a Mars lander "Phoenix" was assembled, and the species was given a name after the lander: Tersicoccus phoenicis.
JpN4 TIL they used pre-recorded samples for the sound of rowing in the Olympics since the real sound would have been drowned out by the chase boat and helicopter
XVOr TIL that Penn Jillette paints one fingernail red in memory of his mother. She told him to get a manicure because people would be looking at his hands, so he painted his left fingernail red as a joke. He now always has it painted red in memory of her.
rP9d TIL Leo Fender, inventor of Fender Guitars, never learned how to play the guitar.
6ELbw TIL the population of the Dusky seaside sparrow was devastated by intentional flooding of Merritt Island to reduce mosquito populations around the Kennedy Space Center. The last known sparrow died in July 1987 at Disney's Discovery Island.