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TIL the five-dot pattern commonly found on six-sided dice is called a Quincunx.

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g7gW TIL that a handful of American revolutionary veterans survived long enough to have daguerreotypes taken of them
Y7OpA TIL about "Operation Cat Drop" in 1959, where the British Royal Air Force airdropped cats into Borneo to control a rat infestation.
7AVX TIL that all bananas (or nearly all) consumed in the United States are picked very green, then ‘flash ripened’ by exposing them to ethylene gas. I also learned (see wiki in 1st comment) that ethylene is the most-used organic compound in industry.
D1APr TIL about Apophis (Egyptian god of death and darkness), an asteroid that will pass earth closer than our own satellites orbit on Friday 13th, 2029. It will touch our atmosphere, and we will be able to see it wiz overhead. There is a debated chance of it impacting Earth when it returns in 2036.
x6yvB TIL Rick Rubin uses Bob Dylan's old tour bus as a second studio at his famous Shangri-La Studios