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TIL a single sperm contains 37.5 MB of information. That means the “average” male ejaculation contains 15.8 TB of information.

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1aKJP TIL of the Pygmalion effect, where teachers expectations of students can improve their performance.
gMd9b TIL of the Hadza people, whose ancestors have occupied the area surrounding the "Cradle of Mankind" for tens of thousands of years. Their oral histories are so ancient that it is possible they reference living alongside earlier extinct hominids such as Homo erectus
R57X6 TIL that in 1974, someone ordered a pizza with a computer for the first time.
8aYYG TIL the Mayan god of childbirth (Ah-Cuxtal) knew germ theory
1mXd TIL Van Morrison’s “Brown Eyed Girl” was originally “Brown Skinned Girl”