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TIL Mosquitos kill more humans per year than humans do (homicides)

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JYrMm TIL that 'Fucking Hell' is a beer named after the village of 'Fucking' in Austria.
e0ReJ TIL that five years before Superman was created there was a pulp fiction Superhero called 'Doc Savage'. He was known as 'The Man of Bronze,' and had a 'Fortress of Solitude ' in the Arctic. He had superhuman powers, though was not an alien. He was known as a Super Man, oh and his name was Clark.
4ZPX TIL A cat named Masha saved a baby’s life. The long-haired red tabby found an abandoned baby in a box in the snow and climbed in to keep the baby warm and meowed to get the attention of a passerby. The abandoned baby was rescued unharmed.
Zpp7G TIL Described as the first iced coffee, the Mazagran was named for the beverage that French colonial troops consumed during the 1840 siege of the Mazagran fortress in Algeria. Troops prepared the coffee syrup with water in the absence of milk or brandy and drank it cold to counter the heat.
oBlr TIL The Great Lakes consist of only 4 bodies of water. Lake Michigan and Lake Huron are actually geographically and hydraulically a single lake, separated only by name. This actually makes it the world’s larges lake, as opposed to the popularly believed Lake Superior.