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TIL that the word "pumpernickel" can literally translate to "devil's fart" because of the bread's "reputed indigestibility"

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m1ZxY TIL the Platypus glows under black lights, senses electric fields, has both reptilian and mammalian genes and traces its ancestry back over 100 million years
epyv4 TIL Dealey Plaza in Dallas remains virtually unchanged since 1963. There is a proposal to make Elm Street into a pedestrian promenade since tourists often wander onto the painted X where Kennedy was shot as well as an amphitheater for visitors to contemplate the assassination site
ADgQB TIL that it was technically legal to kill Mormons in Missouri until 1976
1aya4 TIL: South America, despite its position in relation to the Equator, is rarely affected by tropical cyclones (aka Hurricanes, Typhoons)
nQVW TIL the Aztecs called armadillos āyōtōchtli, meaning “turtle-rabbits”