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TIL mosquito's are unable to fly / feed in wind above 10mph which means if you have a fan outside you can enjoy the outdoors without being bitten! A simple solution which doesn't involve chemicals, sprays etc. Simply having decent wind will ensure you can entertain and most people appreciate a fan.

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kO561 TIL During President Kim Il-sung’s visit to Indonesia in 1965, President Sukarno showed Kim around the Bogor Botanical Gardens when the latter was smitten by an orchid. Sukarno promptly named the flower Kimilsungia and appointed it as the symbol of the eternal friendship between the two countries
KOjbJ TIL A philomath is someone who greatly enjoys learning and studying. A polymath is someone who possesses great and detailed knowledge and facts from a variety of disciplines. Philosophy is the love of "wisdom" or "knowledge", rather than the process of acquisition thereof.
yDv TIL that during the 1950’s Tour de France, one cyclist named Abdel-Kader Zaaf who was in 1st place drank two bottles of wine, took a nap and resumed the race, in the wrong direction (and lost).
99vQ TIL George Washington feared the growing influence of political parties in the US. He thought that it would lead to “the alternate domination” of each party, taking revenge on each other in the form of reactionary political policies, and that it would eventually cause the North and South to split.
GkRJ TIL that actor Jonathan Goldsmith, who portrays the most interesting man in the world in the Dos Equis commercials, lives on a 50-foot Beneteau sailboat in Marina del Rey.