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TIL that Nicorette was created in Sweden for submariners who couldn’t smoke on board

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QN8R9 TIL that in the 1950's, an air cushioned vehicle was invented by a doctor named William Bertelsen from his garage
EjVd TIL that Antartic explorer George Murray Levick in 1911-12 observed penguins’ sexual habits, which included sexual coercion, sex among males and sex with dead females; as these notes were deemed indecent for publication, he wrote them in Greek so that only an educated gentleman could read them
8el64 TIL that guinea pig owners in Switzerland are required by law to own at least two guinea pigs.
P17NZ TIL there is a protein called Pikachurin (after Pikachu) which has an essential role in the precise interactions between the photoreceptor ribbon synapse and the bipolar dendrites.
lodb7 TIL researchers have developed an IVF-like process called IVG (in vitro gametogenesis) - The process uses skin cells to create human egg and sperm cells. It could allow sterile parents to conceive and same sex couples could eventually have children who are biologically related to both parents.