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TIL That the Tuatara, New Zealand’s largest reptile, has the fastest swimming sperm of any reptile but also the longest reproduction time of any reptile at up to 5 years.

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grWoy TIL In the 20th century there was a female gang called the Forty Elephants.Due to conventional ideas of femininity that women were weaker than men,courts believed it impossible women were orchestrators of crime.Most women were assumed to have played supporting roles and received lesser sentences.
X57R TIL In 1932 two gold miners dynamited a huge section of rock from a mountainside in Wyoming & found a sealed cavern with a 7 inch tall fully developed mummy. X-Ray & Photo courtesy of Chicago Field Museum.
690DJ TIL the Japanese government gifted Dr. Yamanaka, known for his work on induced pluripotent stem cells, 160,000 yen for a washing machine after he won the Nobel Prize, as he mentioned in an interview, "I was in the middle of repairing my washing machine when I heard the news."
rRWl0 TIL that in one of the most unusual instances of "twin films" (movies released around the same time, about the same subject) both Kalifornia (1993) and Natural Born Killers (1994) were based on spree killer Charles Starkweather AND starred Juliette Lewis in the role of the killer's girlfriend.
VM5B4 TIL that NASA lost the Mars Climate Orbiter spacecraft due to the lack of conversion of some data to metric system.