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TIL that Burkina Faso students invented a soap that repels the malaria mosquito – malaria is the highest cause of death is Sub-Saharan Africa

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PYNKn TIL about two faced "Janus" cats, named after Roman god who had two faces; one looking into the past, the other the future. They don't usually survive more than a day, but a 2 faced cat named Frank and Louie defied the odds and lived for 15yrs, even appearing in the Guinness World Records book 2006.
Br6Ny TIL: The first British jet fighter, the Meteor, killed more British pilots in accidents (450) than the Germans did in the Battle of Britain (407).
a89oy TIL Alaska P. Davidson was the first female special agent hired by the Bureau of Investigation. Davidson was hired by director William J. Burns in 1922 but was forced to resign by Director J. Edgar Hoover in 1924. Hoover forced all women to resign by 1929, there were no female officers until 1972.
N7L76 [TIL] that the soldiers who guarded the Nuremberg War Trials were former Waffen SS
VMoVp TIL Patrick Stewart largely changed the way people pronounce the word "data"