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TIL: "Preformationism" was the historical belief that sperm were actually fully-developed miniature men who grew into a fetus once deposited inside the womb.

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xVlmb TIL a Maine citizen once randomly decided to become a hermit and stayed as one for over 27 years. He committed up to a thousand minor burglaries and he became so prolific that people started leaving shopping lists for him to write down what he wanted.
JKWj TIL for over a decade teachers and principals in Atlanta erased wrong answers and filled in the right ones in students’ tests. At one school, the faculty held weekend pizza parties to correct answers before turning them in. Over the course of a single year, scores at the school jumped 45 percent.
M7mo7 TIL that the world's oldest code of law, the Code of Ur-Nammu, contains the rule "if a man knocks out the eye of another man, he shall weigh out half a mina of silver." It generally suggests fines rather than physical punishment.
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QJaZe TIL as steel wires in tires become magnetized with use, rotating tires create a magnetic field.