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TIL under rare circumstances, it is possible for human sperm to travel up the fallopian tube, through the ovarian tissue, and penetrate the wall of an intact ovarian follicle to reach the ovum and fertilize the egg before ovulation occurs

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OGVkg TIL according to the (US) National Earthquake Information Center there are approximately 20,000 earthquakes around the globe each year, or 55 per day, with about 16 major earthquakes in any given year.
Leyd TIL that Isaac Asimov wrote a short story in 1953 that set the first self-driving cars to be released around 2015
oRr8R TIL: Sigmund Freud's nephew, Edward Bernays, pioneered the field of public relations. Applying his uncle's ideas, Bernays convinced the public that bacon and eggs was the all-American breakfast and, using subliminal images of vaginas and venereal disease, that only disposable cups were sanitary.
P1eoZ TIL Fela Kuti's 1977 album Zombie was critical of the Nigerian government and referred to soldiers as zombies who blindly followed orders. In anger, they raided Kuta's commune and severely beat Kuta and his mother. She was thrown from a second floor window resulting in a coma which led to her death.
0dEjA TIL that the world's smallest flower is the Wolffia spp., or the watermeal. The plant is about 1/42" long and 1/85" wide, and weighs about as much as 2 grains of salt. It grows on the surface of freshwater lakes or marshes.