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TIL nematodes have no motile cilia and no flagella at all. Their spermatozoids move through ameboid motion.

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pY0MA TIL about Jeannette Rankin, the first women in congress, and the only member who voted against going to war with Japan after Pearl Harbor
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dwm7 TIL Absinthe, The Green Fairy, was invented by the Swiss in the 19th century. Though it contains wormwood, it’s no more hallucinogenic than vodka or whiskey. Economics/politics are the true culprits for Absinthe once being banned across the world. Also, the stuff you get in the US is the real deal.
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4kpO6 TIL about Claudette Colvin. Sheis an American pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement and retired nurse aide. On March 2, 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman.