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

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nevXr TIL that Americans used to say "alumin-ium" like the British, but the chemist who named the element couldn't make up his mind on how to spell it. This led to Webster's Dictionary printing it as "alumin-um", eventually causing American chemists to adopt the 'incorrect' spelling.
RNOQ TIL PubMed, a free database available to the public containing huge amounts new science studies, papers, and research, is slowly dying due to federal budget cuts. They are currently on a stand still of posting new data due to staff limitations.
VEwB TIL that in Disney universe, if an animal character wears clothes, he or she can own an animal character that doesn’t (courtesy of dr Neil DeGrasse Tyson)
D1E9p TIL that the word Antarctic just mean "opposite of the arctic."
xag0 TIL that breasts don’t just bounce up and down, but in a figure-8 pattern