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TIL Biologists are fighting malaria using genetically modified mosquitos which are immune and thus incapable of transmitting it. In other words, the easiest way to cure malaria in humans is to cure mosquitos instead.

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wXWo TIL that the human eye can ONLY make smooth (non-saccadic) motions if it’s actually tracking a moving object.
7L7O TIL Thomas Jefferson believed that The Constitution should expire every 19 years.
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