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TIL Scientists have never seen baby nautilus eggs in the wild

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9LK7 TIL Douglas Adams is one of only two people outside the original Monty Python members to get a writing credit on their BBC series. He co-wrote a sketch called “Patient Abuse” during the fourth and final season.
rmgM TIL The oldest parachute design appears in an anonymous manuscript from 1470s Renaissance Italy (over 400 years before the airplane), showing a free-hanging man clutching a cross bar frame attached to a conical canopy. As a safety measure, four straps run from the ends of the rods to a waist belt.
YgP TIL that in a pinch, hand sanitizer can be used as a makeshift deodorant. The alcohol in it will kill any odor causing bacteria
QJxKM TIL there is a "solar powered" species of hornet that uses a chemical in its exoskeleton to convert sunlight into energy
9wx5B TIL in 1969, the illegitimate son of comedian Stepin Fetchit, who had met his father for the first time only two years before, went on a shooting rampage on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, injuring 16 and killing 5, including his wife and himself.