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TIL Ostracods, a species of crustacean, produce sperm cells 6 times longer than their own bodies.

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GYpvN TIL - In 2013 there was a Japanese remake of the film Unforgiven that replaces the gunslingers with Samurai, making it a reverse homage to the westerns that were inspired by Samurai films
8wdG TIL that a mathematician wrote a physics paper for a scientific journal in the plural form as a sole author. Instead of rewriting the paper in the first person or looking for a coauthor as the journal required, he chose to add his cat as a coauthor.
ZGgR TIL: The phrase “kill them all, let God sort them out” comes from a Crusader in 1209 who wiped out a town of cathar ‘heretics’. Couldn’t tell them apart from Catholics, so killed em all
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