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TIL that the London underground has evolved its own species of mosquito

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yVB7w TIL that Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (2001) was the first ever video game to include the word "Bisexual".
JYxvk TIL of the Öland massacre, where an entire village was slaughtered and left where they fell for 1500 years. Into the modern era, children were warned to never play near it and the site lay undisturbed and out in the open
M7AXa TIL about Lake Vostok, an Antarctic subglacial lake kept liquid at -3 degrees Celsius due to the sheer pressure of the 4000 meters thick ice sheet above it. Having been isolated for around 25 million years, the lake is said to hold clues about potential extraterrestial life on the icy moon Europa
grMo9 TIL that in the 1950s British developed a ten-kiloton nuclear land mine that used living chickens as a source of heat to keep their electronics working during winter.
R7a07 TIL that Swadesh list is a list of the 207 most common words in any language, great if you want to start to learn a new language