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

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PYbpE TIL that Roald Dahl, while stationed in America in World War 2, slept with countless high society women while gathering intelligence. According to one socialite friend, Dahl had a “whole stable” of women, and “he slept with everybody on the east and west coasts that had more than $50,000 a year."
obr TIL Bill Murray once broke Robert De Niro’s nose
M7AD0 TIL or rather realised after 31 years that the Pokemon Ditto originates from the phrase/word "Ditto"
QJEE TIL Cocoa Puffs and Trix are just Kix with cocoa/fruit flavoring.
4b8X TIL that due to the lax laws that pertained to divorce in Reno, Nevada in the early 1900’s, “divorce ranches” were created where women, who were denied divorces in their own home states, could stay at, establish residency, and gain a divorce in Reno within the span of six weeks.