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TIL Men produce around 1,500 sperm - per second

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9wXWD TIL in 1973 two freshwater crocodiles escaped from Taronga Zoo in Australia by scaling a 2.5-meter (8 feet) mesh fence. The zoo intially reported the crocs had been stolen (which made national headlines) because they actually thought it was physically impossible for the crocs to scale the fence.
l7pd5 TIL Betty Boop was based on actress Helen Kane, not (as I had believed) on Clara Bow.
Z6oQ TIL the visual effects rendered in Interstellar used pages of theoretical equations from physicist Kip Thorne and gave new insights into gravitational lensing and accretion disks surrounding black holes that led to three published scientific papers.
BgeWe TIL that over 1.2 million spiders were "silked" to gather around 36.000km of spider silk from which the "Golden Spider Silk Cape" was woven.
06Xv TIL the legendary story of Lady Godiva riding naked on a horse was where the phrase “Peeping Tom” originated from.