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TIL when scientists first studied ceratioid anglerfish, they noticed all the specimens were female and had tiny parasites attached. Then they realized the “parasites” were the male anglerfish.

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N797P TIL about the tabulating machine, which was invented to help process the 1890 Census and spawned the data processing industry, IBM, and modern computing as a whole
7M9L TIL that, according to an NYC medical examiner, “Your golden retriever might sit next to your dead body for days, starving, but the tabby won’t. Your cat will eat you right away, with no qualms at all.”
a5w0 TIL that the man who designed Saddam Hussein’s bunker was the grandson of the woman who designed Adolf Hitler’s bunker.
v1LeL TIL in 1976 The Indian Government castrated over 6.2 million poor men in the name of population control.
yVAAM TIL The earliest records for intentional castration to produce eunuchs are from the Sumerian city of Lagash in the 2nd millennium BCE.