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TIL During his 2009 TED talk, Bill Gates opened a jar of mosquitoes and let them fly around, saying, “Malaria is spread by mosquitoes. I brought some… I’ll let them roam around. There is no reason only poor people should be infected.” He then revealed the mosquitoes were malaria-free.

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4apw TIL The Big Lebowski secured rights for the song Dead Flowers (closing credits) when rights owner and Rolling Stones manager Allen Klein, who was asking $150,000 heard the line “I hate the fuckin’ Eagles, man!” Klein stood up and said, ‘That’s it, you can have the song!’
9dP6 TIL an entrepreneur was making money selling pictures of an unshaven Abraham Lincoln. When Lincoln grew a beard, he nearly went bankrupt and decided to go into making board games under the name of Milton Bradley
4k8B5 TIL that so-called "post nut clarity" is a real thing that doctors/scientists refer to as Postcoital Dysphoria
61Ll TIL in order to game Texas’ “Top 10% Rule”, students have been known to transfer to less competitive high schools for easier chances of automatic admission
8eG8a TIL that the Brazilian jumping spiders bite can cause severe pain, problems with the heart and breathing but also a penile erection that lasts for several hours, and in some cases death.