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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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JeQV TIL in 1950, a disease called Myxomatosis was introduced to rabbits for population control in Australia. It wiped out 500,000,000 rabbits, giving them skin tumors and causing blindness, often killing them within 2 weeks.
kO65d TIL in the United States, 90 percent of the population resides within 10 miles of a Walmart store
Z85AG TIL that maggots can jump by curling their bodies, sticking themselves together and then pumping body fluids into one part until they unstick and explode upwards from the force
Qn69 TIL that two days before Hurricane Katrina struck, two Ohio tourists were arrested in New Orleans on public drunkenness charges. In the chaotic aftermath of the storm, they were jailed for more than a month in the city’s flooded jail
7VWr TIL Tiririca, a Brazilian Clown, used slogans including “What does a federal congressman do? I really don’t know – but if you vote for me, I’ll tell ya” and “It can’t get any worse, vote Tiririca”. He became the second-most-voted congressman in Brazil’s history, with 1,348,295 votes.