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TIL of Adactylidium, a species of mite in which seven female offspring and one male offspring are raised in their mother’s insides. The females then mate with the male and eat their mother alive from the inside-out. Then, they escape their mother’s corpse, leaving their brother to die.

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ZpW1R TIL a man was awarded $412 million against a men's health clinic that misdiagnosed him with erectile dysfunction & unnecessarily gave him 3 penile injections a week to treat it, which caused irreversible damage. It's the largest amount ever awarded by a jury in the US in a medical malpractice case.
JYvpQ TIL of Tek Sing often referred to as "Titanic of the East". Happening 90 years before the Titanic went down, the Tek Sing was overloaded with cargo and also carried 1,600 emigrants, akin to the Titanic they were low on lifeboats from the start. Less than 190 people were rescued.
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