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TIL During his 2009 TED talk, Bill Gates opened a jar of mosquitoes saying “Malaria is spread by mosquitoes. I brought some… I’ll let them roam around. There is no reason only poor people should be infected” and waited for about a minute before telling the audience that the bugs were malaria-free.

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neMGo TIL in 1955 a Plymouth owner had her 10-day-old car suddenly veer off into a wall while she was driving. The dealer refused to pay for repairs, claiming that the warranty only covered repairing defective parts, not the damages caused by them. However, they got sued and lost the case.
6E0j7 TIL that the bubonic plague still circulates in New Mexico among prairie dogs, and that dogs can catch infected fleas and spread it to humans
XExPD TIL about the boxer crab (Lybia tessellata), which carries poisonous sea anemones around in its claws as deadly weapons to punch its prey with.
e0kVb TIL of Build the Enterprise, a plan to build a real-life functioning version of the USS Enterprise using today’s technology. It would get to the moon in 3 days or Mars in 3 months, be a kilometer long, fall somewhere between spaceship and space station, and cost $706 billion to build.
X1RX TIL that in 12,000 years, due to the wobbling of the earth’s axis, the North Star will shift from Polaris [in Ursa Minor] to Vega [in Lyra], and winter in the Northern Hemisphere will occur in June rather than January.