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TIL about the origin story of mosquitoes from the Tlingit tribe of Alaska. A young man got revenge on a cannibal which had killed his two older brothers while they were out hunting. After he burned the cannibal's body into ashes, he blew on the ashes and they flew off, turning into mosquitoes.

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rNmo0 TIL an standard American football field is 53.3 yards wide. For more than 50 years I thought it was 50 yards wide.
5jep TIL that after stepping on her trainer’s head, Mary the Asian elephant (also known as ‘Murderous Mary") was hanged from a crane until death. It was later discovered that she had an infected tooth, and the unqualified trainer had prodded it, which caused her to react.
gMvDX TIL William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody had incredibly progressive views in his time. He openly spoke out against slavery in 1853 and was stabbed twice by an angered member of the mostly pro-slavery crowd; and advocated equal rights for women, the civil rights of Natives, and conservationism.
B0aK TIL: Indian housewives hold 11% of the World’s gold. That is more than the reserves of USA, IMF, Switzerland and Germany put together.
p8VDN TIL of the 2009 Satellite Collision: the first time two satellites collided at hypervelocity