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TIL sperm have olfactory guidance. They literally smell their way to the egg.

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N7pmM TIL Cremating a single body requires enough fuel to fill two SUV fuel tanks.
ADa5g TIL: During the 1920 Olympics in Belgium a man who had just come third in the diving stole the official Olympic flag as a dare. He returned it 103 years old in the year 2000
W7RX4 TIL when George R.R. Martin was writing A Storm of Swords he skipped over the chapter with the Red Wedding in it & finished the rest of the book before making himself go back to write it. It was very hard & painful for him to kill off the characters in that scene that he'd lived with for so long.
Pjyw TIL that the world record for drinking a yard of beer was once held by former Australian prime minister Bob Hawke.
0wAAj TIL the tomb of Louis XIV of France was ransacked during the French Revolution. By 1848, part of his mummified heart had fallen into the possession of the Archbishop of York. He showed it to the Dean of Westminster, who proceeded to eat it.