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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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DlYp TIL that India’s richest man is offering free 4G internet service to everyone in the country
KOoEw TIL of Miki Endo, a Japanese emergency worker who gave her life during the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, by continuing to broadcast warnings and alerts over the community loudspeaker as the tsunami overwhelmed the town of Minamisanriku. She was credited with saving many lives.
b6jXQ TIL: Ancient Europeans Worshipped Wood and Stonehenges
NXQQ8 TIL that U.S. President John Kennedy survived 4 assassination attempts before he was killed in Dallas, Tx on 22 November 1963.
GGaQ TIL bluesman R. L. Burnside once killed a man at a dice game. When asked about the incident, he said: “I didn’t mean to kill nobody. I just meant to shoot the sonofabitch in the head and two times in the chest. Him dying was between him and the Lord.”