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TIL: Sperm from fire ant populations is capable of eliminating DNA from female ovum, essentially producing a clone of the male.

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E1bjp TIL Richard Phillips spent 45 years behind bars for a crime he didn’t commit — the longest verified sentence to have been served in error in America
nk8Y TIL Mohammed Ali’s daughter, Laila Amaria Ali, was undefeated in her career, 24 bouts, 24 wins, 21 by knockout. One of her opponents was Joe Fraziers daughter, Jacqui Frazier-Lyde. They called the fight “Ali/Frazier IV ” since their fathers fought each other three times in their careers.
R5WAl TIL about underwater hockey, also known as Octopush, which is played by holding your breath in a 2 metre deep pool while manoeuvreing a puck across the bottom of a swimming pool using only one hand into the other team's goal with a mini hockey stick/pusher up to 25 metres away at the opposite end
b9Yj0 TIL legendary director/actor/pilot John Huston once flew over a celebrity golf tournament and dropped 5,000 ping pong balls on it.
rNYo4 TIL that Richard Patrick, the lead singer for the rock band Filter, is the younger brother of Terminator 2 actor Robert Patrick.