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TIL that in 2000, People Magazine voted Neil DeGrasse Tyson “Sexiest Astrophysicist Alive.”

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wjbo TIL: There are depictions of Medieval Knights fighting Snails in ancient manuscripts…and nobody knows why
a80oL TIL reproduction via Sex started in Scotland A team of researchers says a fish called Microbrachius dicki is the first-known animal to stop reproducing by spawning and instead mate by having sex. The primitive bony fish, lived in ancient lakes about 385 million years ago in what is now Scotland
69RKJ TIL of Hippoboscoidea, a superfamily of flies that includes the non-flying 'bat-flies', used to be called Pupipara because the larva grows inside their mother who lays downs pupas instead of eggs.
VBoOQ TIL That when Jeanette Rankin took her seat as Montana's Congresswoman in the United States House of Representatives in 1917, she became the first woman ever elected to sit in a national parliament. To date, she is also the only woman ever elected to represent Montana in Congress.
ok1E TIL that all 6 American flags on the moon have turned completely white.