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TIL of Adactylidium, a type of mite known for its unusual life cycle. The pregnant female grows 5-8 females and 1 male in her body. The male then impregnates the females while still in the mother. The females then eat their way out of their mother, and the male dies shortly after.

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PY7QL TIL of John William Godward, an English painter who committed suicide at the age of 61 and left a note stating: "the world is not big enough for [both] myself and a Picasso”. Godward was a neo-classic painter; his style of painting had declined with the rise of modern art.
epadk TIL that Histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal, the life story of a 12th century knight named William Marshal, is the only known written biography of a nonroyal to survive the Middle Ages.
MeaMB TIL of Tanzanian man Saniniu Laizer: a small-scale miner who found 3 rare Tanzanite gemstones which he sold to the government for 12.44 billion Tanzanian shillings. ($5.35 million USD). Laizer, who has 30 children, said it won't change his lifestyle of caring for his 2,000 cows.
yQ81w TIL McDonalds owned and helped boost Chipotle to nearly 500 locations, but sold it in 2006 because it was a distraction.
0o6v TIL Dutch sex ed classes emphasize love, fun, and excitement, while US sex ed classes emphasize the mechanics and dangers