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TIL that cetaceans (whales, dolphins and porpoises) are a member of the order Artiodactyla, which includes deer, sheep, cows, pigs, giraffes, camels and hippopotamuses.

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69n57 TIL that researchers have quantified how quickly irregular verb forms “regularize”: the half-life of an irregular verb scales as the square root of its usage frequency. For example, the word "dreamt" is slowly being replaced by "dreamed".
rPW1 TIL the space between your eyebrows is called the Glabella
DV7Y TIL that Pakistan is actually an acronym for Punjab, Afghan, Kashmir, Indus and Sindh. The suffix -istan means “land” or “home”
eKEk TIL there are rainbow mountains in China that have formed as the result of 24 million years of multicolored sandstone pressed together.
aWR0 TIL Jim Varney had a photographic memory and would shoot up to 25 “Ernest” commercials a day inserting different product names during different takes.