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TIL that Zion National Park, originally named Mukuntuweap National Monument by the U.S. Government, was renamed by early Mormon settlers who were inspired by the biblical Mount Zion, seeing the landscape as a natural temple of God.

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kOPG7 TIL HDMI charges its licensed manufacturers $10,000 per year plus $0.15 per cable, reduced to $0.05 if the HDMI logo is on the socket.
b9MlQ TIL that clonally transmissible cancers exist. These cancers can be transmitted between individuals without the involvement of an infectious agent (unlike e.g. HPV-associated cervical cancer). They are very rare in humans but more common in dogs, Tasmanian devils and clams.
ZpXNQ Today I learned that if a spider is big enough, it can hiss by moving the hairs on its body a certain way - it sounds somewhere between rustling leaves and a snake
v1D07 TIL the Iranian revenge attack on US airbases in January 2020 actually injured over 100 soldiers, but this was not disclosed until seven weeks later.
9Y8eX TIL of the unsolved Keddie murders where a woman living in a rural California cabin was killed with her teenage son and his friend, and her daughter kidnapped, while younger boys were left sleeping in an adjacent room. The remains of the kidnapped daughter were found 3 years later after a tip-off