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TIL human egg fertilization isn’t determined by the fastest sperm but rather the egg sending chemicals to attract particular sperm it chooses

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GAM8J TIL In 2020 anime streaming service Funimation licensed "Interspecies Reviewers", a show about adventurers in a fantasy world reviewing brothels. After airing three episodes and dubbing one, the show was removed from the service because it "[fell] outside of our standards."
WkwX TIL that in 2005 the Georgian President fired the entire traffic police force in an attempt to reduce corruption (xpost; original post did not gain visibility).
l7DKK TIL: That the Mixtecs milked murex sea snails for a purple dye called tixinda instead of crushing them like the Romans did for Tyrian purple.
awL4y TIL that Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, annulled Henry VIII's marriage to his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, beginning a chain of events that would culminate in the English Reformation.
og6A TIL that Chinese mathematician Yitang Zhang could not get an academic job upon graduating, having to work as an accountant and a delivery worker for a New York City restaurant. He later went on to solve a math problem that had been unsolved for 150 years and won a MacArthur Genius Grant