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TIL that A team of paleontologists has discovered 17 million-year-old sperm inside tiny shrimp fossils encased in bat guano on the walls of a cave in Queensland, Australia

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9vg7 TIL that babies have taste buds in their cheeks, which is thought to be the reason why they’re picky eaters and prefer bland foods.
0W7A TIL After a psychotherapy experiment in a convent 300 nuns petitioned the Vatican to be released from their vows leaving only a small group of radical lesbian nuns.
ROM7 TIL that Germany completed its WWI reparation repayment in 2010, 92 years after the end of the war.
N7daE TIL that before the coup d'état in 1953 Mohammad Mosaddegh was regarded as the leading champion of secular democracy and resistance to foreign domination in Iran’s modern history, and that the coup partly took place because Iran nationalized its oil industry.
yQeNX TIL Mill workers in Manchester, England refused to touch slave-picked cotton during the US Civil War. Lincoln wrote a letter of thanks, and relief shipments were sent to the workers. Today, a statue of Lincoln stands in Manchester's Lincoln Square