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TIL Oppenheimer's loss of his security clearance happened 1 day before it was set to expire anyway.

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dDyBZ TIL there are other factors involved, other than just the father's xx or xy chromosomes, in determining which type of sperm fertilizes an egg and human behavior may have a hand in how those factors affect which type of chromosome/sperm impregnates an egg.
p8QQG TIL Starfish can drop off their arms when they feel threatened. Some species can even regenerate themselves from a single arm, as long as there's a small portion of the central disk, and some also reproduce that way, simply splitting in half to become two individual starfish.
4k45N TIL the US government in the 1930's tried to make a canal called the "Cross-Florida Barge Canal" that cut through the Florida peninsula to create a shortcut from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic Ocean. It was going to have a series of locks like the Panama Canal. It was shut down by Nixon.
8O0P TIL in 1987 a barge left New York for North Carolina hauling 3,168 tons of trash. NC turned it away, and it traveled for 7 months trying and failing to find someone to take it. It sparked a national conversation about landfills and recycling.
GYp74 TIL the Venus flytrap was originally called a, "tippity twitchet", in reference to human female genitalia