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TIL In some places the fire department will send you a bill after responding to an emergency call.

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p8g8Q TIL that of the 3,000 species of mosquitoes, just 3 species worldwide are responsible for all disease transmission to humans. Additionally, only female mosquitoes drink blood, and use a special anticoagulant to thin blood in capillaries before consuming it.
kJQo1 TIL of Olga Hepnarová (1951–1975) who was a Czech mass murderer who killed 8 people by driving a truck into a crowd in Prague. She was executed in 1975, the last woman to be executed in Czechoslovakia.
78doZ TIL the world’s biggest radio telescope (SKA) will generate ~600 petabytes of scientific data every year, turning the telescope into a planet-scale computer.
xV0g TIL Malcolm X copied every entry in the dictionary and read it out loud to become a better reader and writer.
Me9BK TIL a US company tried to patent Basmati rice (traditional rice of India)