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TIL female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes rely on one another for "good reviews" of the best egg-laying sites (not too crowded, not too empty, but just right!) — a new insight that could inform future mosquito control efforts.

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WRRo TIL In 2005 the Italian Prime Minister, Berlusconi, insulted Finnish cuisine and joked that Finns ate “marinated reindeer”. In 2008, Finland won an international pizza contest, beating Italy. The name of the winning pizza was “Pizza Berlusconi” which was made of smoked reindeer.
D11Op “At any given moment, there are 1,800 thunderstorms happening somewhere on Earth. This amounts to 16 million storms each year! We know the cloud conditions that produce lightning, but we cannot forecast the location or time of a lightning strike.”
R0Qa TIL With 150,000 post offices, India has the largest postal network in the world. However, it is not unusual for a letter to take two weeks to travel just 30 miles.
loWN5 TIL that if you rub a piece of garlic on your foot, you will taste it in your mouth about an hour later.
gM79X TIL the top level domain in Kenya is .ke. The Kenyan government uses gov.ke, and Kenyan companies use co.ke :)