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oBgxE TIL - In 2013 a company create an ‘electric backpack’ that attaches on the back of a cockroach allowing it to be controlled by a mobile phone app.
BK0L TIL J.R.R. Tolkien would begin his lecture series on Beowulf by loudly reciting the beginning lines of the poem…in the original Anglo-Saxon language.
j6JXM TIL that the ratio of male births to female births is 51/49%, and it's thought the ratio of X and Y chromosomes in the man's sperm is most likely the cause.
4YGa TIL that on April 12, 1955, Edward R. Murrow asked Jonas Salk who owned the patent to the polio vaccine, his response was “Well, the people, I would say… There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?”
b9kwa TIL Isaac Newton once inserted a large sewing needle "betwixt my eye and bone as neare to [the] backside of my eye as I could", to observe its effect on vision