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TIL the last lynching in Alabama wasn't 100+ years ago. It was the lynching of Michael Donald in 1981!

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D1jag TIL sperm don't race to the egg. They are passively transported via "pumping & wafting", weeding out the high number of "duds" that human males have. Many are stored in side-channels for up to 10 days. The sperm introduced to the egg are a random sampling, & don't represent "survival of the fittest"
ANlJ7 TIL there are as many smokers in China as as there are people in the United States
j6dgQ TIL that "sheeple" is not actually internet slang or a term coined due to modern political discourse. The first documented use of the term appeared in a March 1945 Op-Ed of "The Musical Times' criticizing the BBC.
16W7O TIL: “Miss Unsinkable” Violet Jessop survived the sinking of Titanic then survived the sinking of its sister ship Brittanic. The third sister and class namesake Olympic did not sink but Jessop was on board for its collision with a warship.
dD7nK TIL that british climber Alan Hinkes had to be air rescued from Nanga Parbat in 1997 when flour from a burnt chapati (a type of flatbread) got up his nose, making him sneeze so violently that he prolapsed a disc. He waited 10 days in agony before being rescued and is since known as the "chapati man"