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TIL the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds developed a 'splatometer' for insect analysis. Which is a post card-sized piece of plastic attached to a car that catches bugs as one drives.

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d8nRE TiL women receiving radiation to their pelvis can have their ovaries transplanted into their forearm (heterotopic transplantation) to be retrieved in the future for IVF and maintain their fertility.
PnJG TIL Norah Vincent, A lesbian feminist writer, once disguised herself as a man for 18 months to write a book on gender. After the experiment, she was institutionalized for depression, and stated that she never felt so glad for being a woman.
51YB TIL if a Catholic man needs a semen sample to diagnose infertility, he’s supposed to do so by recovering it from a non-lubricated, perforated condom after normal intercourse
ANXGl TIL we still don't know what disease killed more than half the Native Americans in 1500.
b9K09 TIL female shrimp get one or two eyes removed to increase reproduction- it’s called eyestalk ablation