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Y7MYx TIL around 20% of sperm are abnormal and may possess two heads, no heads, or two tails. Known as "kamikaze sperm", they are theorized to attack and kill the sperm of rival males with enzymes and block them from reaching the egg.
R59N6 TIL in 1959, thirty TV Westerns aired during prime time in the US; none had been canceled that season, while 14 new ones had appeared. In one week in March 1959, eight of the top ten shows were Westerns. In addition, an estimated $125 million in toys based on TV Westerns were sold that year.
9o1m TIL an entire town won a $950-Million lottery jackpot except for one man
J1Pdj TIL that 1997 video game Golden Eye 007 is so well appreciated, that it was placed on exhibit in the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
vP50j TIL that Margaret Thatcher's son was heavily involved in financing an attempted coup in Equatorial Guinea