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TIL Mosquitoes normally eat plant nectar and only need blood to lay eggs

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1aJ5V TIL in the final stages of hypothermia, humans exhibit two strange behaviors; paradoxical undressing, in which a person will remove all their clothes despite being dangerously close to death, and a completely autonomous, instinctual burrowing behavior.
vG4L TIL a Canadian Research Firm has developed Invisible Camouflage, and is sharing it w/ the U.S. Government.
xrno TIL of a black wolf called Romeo who lived on the edge of suburban Juneau, Alaska for six years and made friends with the locals and their dogs. The most unusual relationship formed, allowing three different species to live in harmony. There was even a book written about him.
Bg88x TIL about the "Demon Core" a plutonium core of an atomic bomb designated to be the 3rd nuclear bomb dropped on Japan during WWII, but after Japan surrendered the core was used for research at Los Alamos National Labs in New Mexico where it was involved in two fatal accidents.
oR1PE TIL that Sigourney Weaver earned $1,000,000 and a share of the profits for Aliens (1986), whereas she earned only $35,000 for Alien (1979).