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TIL Suffixes and prefixes are both kinds of affixes, but there are also nine other categories

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W8do TIL that the maned wolf’s urine smells so much like marijuana it caused police at the Rotterdam Zoo to go on the hunt for cannabis smokers
j6Obj TIL the SS Robert E. Lee was torpedoed by a German U-boat just 45 miles off the Louisiana coast in 1942. It sank in 15 minutes, killing 25 people. Decades later, both the ship and the U-boat that sank it were found just a mile apart on the seafloor.
N7k7E TIL that due to the structure of Planet Earth, there are actually subterranean mountains some 410 miles down below the surface, with some being taller than Mount Everest.
M1wB TIL Cheddar Cheese is never naturally orange
QN5KX TIL that people in Marrakesh bring urns of meat stew to public bathhouses, where it slow cooks in the bathhouse's water heating oven as they steam bathe.