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TIL fruit fly (Drosophila spp.) sperm can reach nearly 6 cm, roughly twenty times the total length of their bodies.

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78wm7 TIL that in 2023, a team of doctors in Boston treated brain malformation in a baby while it was still in womb, by using ultrasound guidance, a needle, and tiny coils that were placed directly into the abnormal blood vessels to stop blood flow.
v1xWL TIL: the "legs" you see in old high speed footage of nuclear tests are a result of the explosion chasing down the wires of the support tower. The metal of the wire conducts heat faster than the surrounding air, allowing the pulses to move out ahead of the rest of the blast.
nE17 TIL: The longest a Great White Shark has lived in captivity is 44 days.
KnNQ TIL that the dating system “BP” (before present/before physics) starts in 1950, because nuclear weapons testing changed the carbon isotopes in the atmosphere, making dating after that time unreliable.
vP1d8 TIL 'Ballooning' spiders are able to take off and fly through the air, without wind, by using a single line of web ejected into the air to propel them up the naturally generated electric fields in our atmosphere