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TIL Elephantfish are the only vertebrates with sperm with no flagella(tails).

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8DaP TIL in 1958, Mao Zedong ordered the Chinese people to kill all the sparrows in the country to protect the rice crops. The effort backfired as, without the sparrows to eat insects, the locust population exploded and wiped out food crops, contributing to the starvation of tens of millions of people.
xO70 TIL Spotify has 4 million songs that haven’t been played once. That’s 20% of all their songs.
PYNQL TIL the Polish "Spirytus Delikatesowy" is believed to be the strongest liquor for sale in America; it contains almost 100% pure alcohol!
lo4Gr TIL that France has inheritance laws that automatically give a significant portion of inheritance to each child and children cannot be disowned in the will
v1lV4 Today I learned that in 1953 Ferrari supplied F1 engines to a hydroplane boat that set a record that still stands today.