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TIL Yoshi’s full name is T. Yoshisaur Munchakoopas.

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Eobx TIL Al Bundy scored four touchdowns in a single game while playing for the Polk High School Panthers in the 1966 city championship game versus Andrew Johnson High School, including the game-winning touchdown in the final seconds against his old nemesis, “Spare Tire” Dixon
gr5gy TIL the first established patent system was the Venetian Patent Statute of 1474, being the earliest codified patent system in the world, with its principles still being the basic foundation of modern patent law
YZWA TIL of African spiny mice that can shed up to 60% of the skin on their backs to escape predators. They then regrow hair follicles, skin, sweat glands and fur instead of scar tissue. And it is speculated that we could switch this mechanism on in humans.
1aLXD TIL the proverb, "It ain't over till the fat lady sings," derives from the traditionally buxom Valkyrie Brünnhilde from Wagner's Götterdämmerung opera. Her farewell song before the end of the world lasts almost twenty minutes and leads to the finale of the whole Ring Cycle of operas by Wagner.
DQX1r TIL that until infant pain was formally recognized in 1987, it was widely assumed that infants didn't feel pain, leading to many undergoing major surgeries without anesthesia.