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TIL Mosquitoes caused the death of almost half of all people who have ever lived

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pYvOe TIL “Just Desserts” is a pun. The original phrase, “Just Deserts”, describes not desert climates but “moral deserts”—or, things which one morally deserves. “Desert” and “Deserve” share an old French root, but the word “desert” is very rarely used in this form in modern day.
jE7j TIL The guy who snagged windows2000.com happened to be named Bob and Microsoft just happened to own Bob.com. They came to an agreement to trade one for the other.
M7oE7 TIL Edgar Allen Poe wrote a story in 1838 about a shipwrecked crew that cannibalized their own cabin boy whose name was Richard Parker. Then in 1884. a real life ship sank and the surviving crew drifting in a lifeboat, cannibalized their cabin boy whose name was Richard Parker
AJgn TIL a set of 19 questions such as “Do we have the right patient?” and “What operation are we performing?” can reduce surgical deaths by more than 40%
6EW0m TIL about Alice in Wonderland Syndrome, common in children, which leads to different parts of your body feeling out of proportion. It can also make everything feel very far away like you're seeing the world through the wrong end of a telescope, and usually distorts time and sound.