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And in markdown you chuck them between backticks to indicate they're verbatim text to be rendered in monospace.

> "And in markdown you chuck them between backticks to indicate they're verbatim text to be rendered in monospace."

Only if the intent is for the URL to be copy/pasted, otherwise you enclose the URL in <url> or [text](url) to make it clickable.

Most markdown implementations make URLs clickable without the angle brackets.