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TIL that mosquitoes kill more people each year than any other species.

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7rm1M TIL about Karl Richard Lepsius, a Prussian egyptologist who led an expedition to the Great Pyramids of Giza during the 1840s, leaving behind a hieroglyphic graffiti above its entrance, praising the patron of the project, King Friedrich Wilhelm IV.
A9Gd TIL The human sigh acts as a physiological reset button
bDXZ TIL English words for livestock (cow, sheep, chicken) are Germanic-based and the words for meats (beef, mutton, poultry) are French-based. This is because the people who raised the animals were Anglo-Saxon peasants and the people who ate them were Norman aristocrats.
4J5N TIL that Oxford university is older than the Aztec empire
WkagL TIL: No one is 100% sure where the first white coat came into the picture or who exactly designed it, but it is clear that the white coat became synonymous with portraying the doctor as a clean, safe source of authority in the new-and-improved medical field and that image has never really left.