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TIL that garbha Upanishad(esoteric doctrine over the embryo),a hindu upanishadic texts deal with the theory of the formation and development of the human embryo and human body after birth.in section 3 it gives an idea about how embryo develops.

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78r1X TIL of Barthélemy de Chasseneuz, a French lawyer who made his reputation as a criminal lawyer by successfully defending a group of rats that were put on trial for destroying barley crops in 1508.
7jR7 TIL In 1713, Venetian Baroque composer Giuseppe Tartini had the devil come to him in a dream where he played the violin with such virtuosity that the composer felt enchanted. Upon awakening, Tartini in an attempt to recreate what he had heard composed his greatest piece, which to him didn’t compare.
gM9M9 TIL that the anechoic chambers are the quietest places on Earth and have background noises measured in negative decibels. After a few minutes in chambers, you can hear your heartbeat and blood circulating in your ears and could experience troubles with orienting or even standing.
j00N TIL Pluto’s largest moon Charon was named after James W. Christy’s wife, Charlene. It was later discovered that Charon was an existing figure in Greek mythology (the ferryman of Hades, later known as Pluto), and thus the name was kept.
wME8 TIL in 2005 a glitch in World of Warcraft allowed a plague to spread in the game leading non-infected players to abandon cities while those infected were forced into quarantines. It was later studied by epidemiologists to see how real life people would react to a pandemic.