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TIL the plural of “sphinx” is “sphinges”

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4X8JN TIL of Devin Gaines, who earned 5 bachelor degrees at the same time from the University of Connecticut in 2007, completing 276 credits, only to drown later that year as he had never learned how to swim.
yLKv TIL: A Kansas man replied to a Craigslist ad by a lesbian couple asking for a sperm donor to conceive a child. Five years later, a judge ruled that the sperm donor must pay child support even though he signed documents waiving his parental rights.
oWQW TIL John Snow is considered the Father of Modern Epidemiology, after successfully tracing back a cholera infection to a water pump in London in 1854.
w6ZJ TIL that Charles Darwin didn’t refer to evolution (“evolve”) in his book, “Origin of Species”, until the very last sentence so that potentially outraged Christians would either lose interest and stop reading before finding it, or be forced to read the evidence first.
XExVR TIL of accidental Stereo Sound. Where by Two recorders with microphones in different positions captured both left and right audio of an artist’s recording session. Decades later these recordings were then merged together to give stereo sound, pre-dating true stereophonic sound by a good 20 years