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TIL the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation donated $4M to help stop malaria in a plan to create genetically modified non-biting male mosquitoes released to mate with malaria-carrying wild females, giving birth to progeny that dies before reaching the human biting age.

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R7rW8 TIL that originally squirrels only lived in forests, staying away from people, and were intentionally introduced into city parks, the first being Franklin Square in Philadelphia in 1847.
oBo5o TIL: Co-Founder Opal Tometi is a supporter of Venezuelan dictator Nicholas Maduro
nWnyr TIL: that some species of sharks have an umbilical cord at birth, therefore have a belly button
kapW TIL that University of Alabama’s visitors locker room is named the ‘Fail’ room after alum & donor James M. Fail, who said “I figured it was the most appropriate opportunity I would ever have to use my name”
9wNJ7 TIL British cannonball stuck in Norfolk, VA Saint Paul's Episcopal Church - can still be seen!