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TIL Western sperm counts aren't actually dropping, instead testers sampled badly and made other errors

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4OlJ TIL the physical document that dissolved the Soviet Union is missing
YpBKW TIL the abbreviation “lb” for pound comes from the ancient Roman unit of measure “libra pondo”, meaning “a pound by weight”, which is also why we ended up calling it a “pound”.
8ab9V TIL about Pedro Alonso Nino, a Black-Spanish explorer who piloted The Santa Maria on Columbus’s first voyage to America. He comes from the famed Nino Brothers. The La Niña, another of Columbus ships was actually owned by Pedro’s brother, Juan.
l76gK TIL Robert Oppenheimer's brother Frank founded the Exploratorium Science Museum in San Francisco
MemNB TIL the British Library must store one copy of every single book published in the UK and Ireland. It houses over 200,000,000 publications, adds 6 miles (9.65 km) of new shelf space a year, and receives over 8000 new publications each day