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TIL That mosquitoes actually serve a real purpose (other than being a nuisance) as pollinators.

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Me4jB TIL there once existed the Silver Republican Party, a US political party that split from the Republican Party in the 1890s over the issues of bimetallism and free silver. It disbanded in the early 1990s and most of its members joined the GOP, but some went to the Democrats.
X0kZr TIL astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but it was later discovered that due to a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece of his telescope, he was actually mapping the blood vessels in his own eye
BrrWL TIL popular street food in North Korea is"injogogi" dregs left from making soy bean oil, which usually go to feed the pigs. Press and roll them into a sandy-coloured paste. Stuff with rice, and top with chilli sauce
oR8eW Today I learned that the United States not only had denominations of $500, $1000, $5,000, and $10,000, which are still legal for people to own, but for a very brief period they also had a $100,000 bill that was only ever used by banks and is considered illegal for private citizens to own.
VMljQ TIL in 2007 ‘FOX and Friends’ labelled the late Mr Rogers as an ‘ Evil, Evil man’ for supposedly encouraging generations of children to grow up with a sense of entitlement