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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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pVDG TIL Earthworm Jim was created as a result of the success of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The game was created as a satire of platform video games at the time; for instance, “Princess-What’s-Her-Name” was a parody of how so many video games had throw-away female characters to be saved.
loGW5 TIL that one of the reasons the Piltdown Man hoax, the supposed missing link between ape and man found in Britain, fooled so many was because many European scientists, especially Britons, wanted to believe that the earliest humans came from Europe and not from Africa due to their prejudices.
p8RKe TIL of Redoshi, a woman believed to have been the last survivor of the transatlantic slave trade. She was captured in 1860 in West Africa at age 12 and worked on a plantation in Alabama. She died in 1937 and lived long enough to become acquainted with people active in the civil rights movement.
0dREv TIL that in 1995 a California woman contracted the bubonic plague when she ran over a squirrel in her power mower
rNJR1 TIL that in 2004, a South Korean scientist claimed to have cloned a human embryo and created stem cell lines from it, only for the entire thing to be exposed as an elaborate scientific fraud that rocked the global scientific community.