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TIL a pickle is a cucumber

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XEbaP TIL Ken Eto (衛藤 健 Etō Ken; October 19, 1919 – January 23, 2004), also known as Tokyo Joe, was a Japanese-American mobster with the Chicago Outfit and eventually an FBI informant. He survived a botched assassination, where he was shot three times in the head.
7rO5M TIL That bears don’t poop while hibernating. Instead, their body creates a “fecal plug” which can be 7-15 inches long and 1-2.5 inches in diameter.
oly8 TIL mini-chameleons the size of a fingernail were discovered on Madagascar in 2012
LkE5Z TIL 90 percent of all large fish have disappeared from the world's oceans in the past half century
OGDAX TIL that the USA only has 10 actual fjords, of which 7 are in Alaska, 2 in Washington, and 1 in New York. Norway has 1,190 fjords.