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TIL The Poem “Mary Had a Little Lamb” was in fact about a little girl, Mary Sawyer, from Boston whose little lamb followed her to school one day in 1816.

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ADLAl High-speed video imaging colored to reveal the two main components of a sneeze show a shower of larger droplets, green, whose trajectories can extend up to two meters from the person sneezing, yellow, and a cloud, red, made of a mixture of smaller droplets suspended in moist, warm gas. Pathogen-bearing droplets can be suspended in the air for not just seconds, but minutes, and can travel up to 27 feet.
Q4Xd TIL that the biggest sperm bank in the world turns down red headed donors because “not enough people want ginger kids”
JyXm TIL if everyone lived like a resident of the United States, we would need the resources of 4.5 planet Earths for sustainable supply.
v1eEL TIL A nurse treated female patient's genitals like a ventriloquist's dummy in front of colleagues. He was examining in front of three colleagues when he “pulled her labia apart and said ‘Hello my name is [Patient A]’, treating her labia like a puppet”, a Nursing and Midwifery Council panel heard.
aVx9 TIL That rain can cause cherries to split or mold while ripening, ruining the entire crop. Water collects in the divot where the stem attaches to the cherry. After a rain, cherry growers will hire helicopters to fly low over the cherry trees to dry off the cherries and shake the tree branches.