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TIL A group of jackalopes is called a flaggerdoot.

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Z8Y8o TIL that the Japanese earthquake in 2011 increased the Earth's rotation speed, shortening the day by 1.8 microseconds.
gMBrW TIL Xi Jinping's dad, Xi Zhongxun, was the only high ranking CCP member who defended, albeit unsucessfully, massively popular liberal reformist Hu Yaobang from being removed from office by Deng Xiaoping. Hu's purge and death years later sparked the Tiananmen Square protests.
d8Y0E TIL a 67-year-old neuro-scientist was "stereoblind" (unable to see depth) his entire life, but it was cured after he saw the movie "Hugo" in 3D at a movie theater. Afterwards he was permanently able to perceive depth.
VBGJZ TIL that in RuneScape, the "Party Hat," initially a common item from a 2001 holiday event, has become one of the game's most valuable assets. Originally considered worthless and often discarded, these hats are now rare collectibles, with some colors valued at billions of in-game gold.
7L0M TIL that there are some prime numbers that are illegal. It turns out the binary representations of the prime numbers can describe some code that can be used to bypass the DRM on DVDs