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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.

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nWERd TIL The NFL started using Roman numerals for Super Bowl V in 1971 and then went back and renamed the previous championship games as Super Bowls I, II, III and IV.
9Y5jm TIL over International Military Sports Council, made up of 134 countries, sends almost 10,000 servicemen to compete in the Military World Games. These are the military version of the Olympics. The most recent games were held in October, in Wuhan, China and only 100 countries participated.
D0DY TIL there is a type of video photography that makes real life look like highly detailed miniatures. It’s called Tilt-Shift Photography, and it looks uncanny.
Y767d TIL that, when writing Dracula, Bram Stoker was greatly influenced by his father’s interest in theatre and his mother’s gruesome stories about her childhood during the cholera epidemic in 1832.
ANMl7 TIL the Y chromosome is degenrarting and if it continues at same rate it will disappear in 4.6 milion years.