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TIL Scientists have never seen baby nautilus eggs in the wild

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E10VW TIL Poland once gave USA a birthday card signed by 5,5 million Polish people
ne4Ro TIL the inventor of the commercial airliner also started a cult, based in part around the doctrine that the Earth sucks nutrients from outer space into itself via a hole at the North Pole and subsequently expels them from a huge anus at the South Pole.
mW5R TIL that it took an average of 52,000 bullets to make a single kill by regular infantry units during the Vietnam War.
Y76pv TIL: That there is an area of the UK simply referred to as the "Black Country". It's said that the Black Country gained its name in the mid 19th century from the smoke from the many thousands of ironworks and forges. The term is used as a marketing tool to sell and promote the West Midlands.
wLKEW TIL an estimated one in fifty people suffer from Aphantasia, a condition in which the person’s “mind eye” is blind and they can’t picture things just by thinking about them