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TIL human eggs are visible to the naked eye.

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Ln8r TIL that in 2010 a GCHQ employee’s decomposing corpse was found locked inside a duffle bag placed in the bathtub of a London flat. A re-investigation by the Metropolitan Police concluded that his death was “probably an accident”
8avZP TIL a company in Japan developed a smoke alarm specifically designed for those with hearing impairments that uses wasabi odour instead of a loud noise. Tests on sleeping people with normal or no hearing show the device waking all of the subject in just two and a half minutes.
v1Adj TIL John Von Neumann was an American polymath who is known as the last of the great mathematicians. On his deathbed, he entertained his brother by reciting the first lines of each page of Goethe’s Faust word-for-word by heart. He knew state secrets, so federal agents guarded his bed till his death.
nWlnb TIL - The Dodge Viper was discontinued in 2017 not due to low sales numbers, but because side curtain airbags were starting to be required. The SRT team felt it would have been too expensive, needing a redesigned chassis and significantly reducing its already limited headroom.
5Vrnn TIL In 18th-century America, the typical age of marriage for middle-to-upper class white women was 22 and 26 for men.