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TIL that a microscopic inorganic flash of light, also known as a zinc spark, is released by the human egg upon fertilization when billions of zinc ions are exocytosed from its surface.

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kWv4 TIL that during production of Toy Story 2, Pixar accidentally deleted the entire movie from its servers. The movie was saved by an employee, a new mother, who worked from home and had the data saved on her personal computer.
RlKa TIL: One of the largest babies ever born (18lbs) grew up and gave birth to the largest baby ever born (23lbs.)
vP6K TIL Disneyland workers thought it was such a horrible place to work they nicknamed it ‘Mousewitz’. When the bosses found out they told the workers to stop, they then called it 'Duckau’
KY8j6 [TIL] Sushi, or vinegared rice, was initially used as a preservative for a dish called narezushi (馴れ寿司). The fermented rice was packed around raw salted fish, which in turn fermented and preserved the fish for months. Once the fish was consumed, the rice was thrown away.
wLrvP TIL that Iceberg B-15 was the world's largest recorded iceberg. It measured around 295 kilometres (183 mi) long and 37 kilometres (23 mi) wide, with a surface area of 11,000 square kilometres (4,200 sq mi)—larger than the whole island of Jamaica.