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TIL Our own internal mechanisms cause the "itchiness" in mosquito bites, rather than any chemical the mosquito leaves behind.

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kjXB TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger was the first civilian to purchase a Humvee.
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GA5QJ TIL that publisher Jonathan Cape initially accepted Animal Farm by Orwell, but backtracked after a warning from Ministry of Information. It was later discovered that the civil servant who likely gave the warning was a Soviet spy.