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TIL the Irish word for jellyfish, smugairle róin, translates literally as 'seal snot'.

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E6lX TIL Human fingers can feel objects as small as 13 nanometers. “This means that, if your finger was the size of the Earth, you could feel the difference between houses from cars.”
W79r4 TIL the first Indian Scientist (Subhash Mukhopadhyay) to create a IVF child (durga) in 1978 (67 days after the 1st baby in UK) comitted suicide after being harasssed and discredited by the state and central government of India and even prevented from sharing his success globally.
xVPKg TIL Frank Sinatra's classic song My Way has been blamed for several karaoke-related murders in the Philippines. Dubbed "My Way killings", the murders have led many karaoke bars to ban the song.
9YPYm TIL that 18th-century scientists believed that sperm contained tiny preformed humans that implanted in the woman’s reproductive system to grow in size.
6EbGY TIL a nurse named Niels Högel is one of the most prolific medical serial killers of all time (85 confirmed, 300+ suspected). He administered lethal doses of heart meds to patients so he could try to revive them in front of colleagues for attention and praise.