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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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ZjvD TIL the Iraqi government spent $78m on bomb detectors that turned out to be glorified dowsing rods. The director of the UK-based company behind the devices was jailed for 10 years.
QJPgp TIL of the "Poe Toaster", an individual or individuals who, for over seventy years, on Edgar Allen Poe's birthday (January 19) would appear mysteriously and drink a cognac toast at the author's grave. He would also leave several roses in a "distinctive arrangement."
9Y6WB TIL The company Samsung accounts for 15% of South Korea's entire economy, and that South Koreans often live in Samsung owned apartment buildings, can get treatment from Samsung-owned medical centers, go to Samsung universities, and even end up at a Samsung funeral parlor when they die.
XGAQ TIL Windows 95 was the second most installed piece of software on computers in 1995; videogame DOOM was first.
DQd0v TIL Dr. Ted Fujita, the inventor of the Tornado Windspeed scale, also studied winds at the sites of Hiroshima and Nagasaki just after their destruction.