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

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pY5EO TIL Keanu Reeves, frequently cited as having the worst English accent in film history, is half English and his mother is from Essex.
n9jP TIL or Horace Greasely, who escaped the Nazi death camps 200 times to meet with the woman he was in love with, and returned after every time because there was no other place to go to.
XEQrk TIL whale calves are born in the water and need to swim to the surface for their first breath - sadly, some of them don’t make it and drown.
N7k8J TIL That the Country (now the National) party has governed Australia for a mere 84 days under 3 different PMs.
vw5B TIL the US spent $20 million on a cat equipped to spy on the Soviets during the Cold War but it immediately got hit by a taxi