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TIL Mosquitos have collectively killed more human beings throughout history than any other factor, including war

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nvGB TIL President Garfield could write in two languages simultaneously, Greek with one hand and Latin with the other.
6RW8 TIL John Pemberton died a pennyless morphine addict after selling the rights to his alcohol-free morphine alternative, ‘Coca-Cola’, a formula he said “some day will be a national drink”.
pYo48 TIL the reason that purple has traditionally been associated with royalty was because, in Ancient Rome, the only source of purple was milking and fermenting the liquid from a snail. It took 12,000 snails to produce 1 gram of dye! This made the Caesars declare it their exclusive color.
X0jg8 TIL Luigi
RNOQ TIL PubMed, a free database available to the public containing huge amounts new science studies, papers, and research, is slowly dying due to federal budget cuts. They are currently on a stand still of posting new data due to staff limitations.