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TIL Russia, Corsica and Israel have raised monuments to mosquitofish, commemorating their role in defeating malaria in the early 20th century

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Z8Dev TIL that roughly one out of every three socks you wear was made in a place known as “Sock City”. A small Chinese village in the 1980s it has grown to employ over 100,000 people and produces 8 billion socks a year.
6EjWZ TIL that, although people consider prostitution to be the "oldest profession", human beings have been practicing dentistry since around 7000BCE. This makes the oldest surviving records of dentistry far older than that of prostitution.
0wYP1 TIL how blind people use the iPhone using Braille Screen Input
P1MBg TIL that the United States is currently under 42 different national emergencies, one of which dates from 1979.
wbwP TIL Japan was invaded by the strong Mongol army TWICE, and both times were saved by harsh storms that crippled the Mongols. They called these storms “Kamikaze” or “Divine Winds”