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TIL mosquitoes fill no significant ecological niche, and if they went extinct there would be few, if any ill effects.

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X0jOQ TIL Bert Janssen from the Netherlands is the longest-living heart transplant recipient in the world since 1984. The operation was done by Egyptian-born transplant pioneer Magdi Yacoub, who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1992 for his services to medicine.
nePDd TIL the only king to defeat All three armies of Mongols was Alauddin khilji. Thus saving Hinduism, languages, culture and cuisine of india.
woDj1 TIL that to date no woman has run a 4 minute mile
woww6 TIL: the Macadamia plant, from which we get the nut, was named after a person, John MacAdam
0ryA TIL There was a batman villain named Condiment King and he was defeated by slipping on his own ketchup.