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TIL there are 9.63 million millionaires in the U.S. alone.
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MeEd7
TIL some male and female duck reproductive organs have evolved into a biological arms race, with the male duck’s penis being long, corkscrewed and barbed to secure penetration and the female duck’s vagina being cork-screwed in the opposite direction to prevent penetration.
PJ6E
TIL the last sonata Beethoven composed has little to do with classical music and more to do with with jazz and boogie-woogie, about a 100 years in advance; and he was completely deaf when he wrote it
R1Z4
TIL Some of the male background characters in in ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ can be seen wearing skirts. This was explained as “a logical development, given the total equality of the sexes presumed to exist in the 24th century.”
oRp47
TIL that "Schrodinger's Cat" -- the famous thought experiment in quantum mechanics where an unobserved cat is both alive and dead -- was not proposed by Erwin Schrodinger to highlight the principle, but rather to mock its absurdity.
E1Yvw
TIL Chiropractic is actually a form of "alternative medicine", where studies have not found evidence that chiropractic manipulation is effective and collectively found that spinal manipulation was ineffective at treating any condition.