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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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l7Wo7 TIL Spengler (1880-1936) predicted that about the year 2000, Western civilization would enter the period of pre‑death emergency which would lead to 200 years of Caesarism (extra-constitutional omnipotence of the executive branch of government) before Western civilization's final collapse.
gr8w4 TIL that 3 out of the past 6 U.S. Presidents to die have died in Texas.
r0Yy TIL In 2005, a fortune cookie company correctly foretold lottery numbers, resulting in 110 winners and an investigation.
D1RAp TIL in the months before his sudden death, former Mythbuster Grant Imahara built a fully animatronic Baby Yoda. Having spent 3 months of his personal time designing, programming, and 3D printing the project, he intended to bring it to hospitals to cheer up sick children.
awEPZ TIL: In the United States, you can sell dietary supplements with no safety or efficacy testing at all if you don't "make specific medical claims" or use a known poison as an active ingredient. The FDA can only remove a product from market after "substantial" deaths or injury occur.