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TIL that testicles have taste receptors and they are essential for reproduction. In testing with mice, researchers found that when the taste receptors were removed from the mice, the mice became infertile.

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XDNX TIL That Lockheed Martin test pilots carry the wallets and car keys of the chief aircraft engineers as a sign of good faith.
4XGnb TIL Moray Eels have a second set of extendable "jaws" inside their throat called the pharyngeal jaw that grab onto prey and pull it down the eel's throat. They are thought to be a modified gill structure that has developed a secondary set of teeth.
4VPw TIL a 15 year old kid has invented a pancreatic cancer detection technique that is 168 times faster, over 26,000 times less expensive and over 400 times more sensitive than current methods…and 100% accurate.
pmE8 TIL That Hitler’s ‘Mein Kamph’ was mocked by being called 'Mein Kramph’ ('My Cramps’ or perhaps 'My Diarrhea’) by critics.
lRrN TIL that during WWII American soldiers in the Pacific theatre would use the word ‘lollapalooza’ to challenge unidentified persons, on the premise that Japanese people often pronounce the letter L as R