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TIL An Ebay listing for a sea urchin turned out to be a new species, later given the name Coelopleurus exquisitus

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Zy14 TIL the YKK on my zipper stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushikikaisha (which means Yoshida Company Limited). They make 7 billion zippers each year.
E1Gnw TIL that Alan Turing once bought 150lbs of silver, but didn't trust banks so he buried it in the woods instead. After the price of silver had almost doubled, he went to dig it up, but could no longer find it.
8ePEK TIL Known as Evil Morty theme song (Blonde Redhead - For the Damaged Coda) is based on Chopin's Nocturne Op. 55 No. 1.
5YbJP TIL about Paradoxical Undressing, a rare symptom of hypothermia where the patient undresses due to vasoconstriction tricking him into thinking that he is hot.
BrkPb TIL the word "gorilla" comes from the Greek word meaning, "savage hairy women."