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TIL the London Underground has its own subspecies of mosquito, which is more aggressive towards humans than its surface-dwelling relative.

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BgaEK TIL Pan-Am's first Round-the-World flight was unplanned. The flight's return journey via Hawaii was cancelled after Pearl Harbor was attacked, and with the help of Auckland's library system, a route was plotted to return to America via Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Congo, and Brazil.
Ypo9r TIL Gerard Way the lead singer of My Chemical Romance wrote the comic series The Umbrella Academy
4XW6w TIL When the Japanese surrendered in WW2, they anticipated that widespread violence against Japanese women would occur in Japan. As a precaution the Japanese government set up brothels to curb this.
6EJ1J TIL You are 10 times more likely to get bitten by a New Yorker than a shark.
N7vrP TIL The band Hot Chocolate became the only group, and one of just three acts, that had a hit in every year of the 1970s in the UK charts (the other two being Elvis Presley and Diana Ross). The band eventually had at least one hit, every year, between 1970 and 1984