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TIL the classic board game Risk was invented by Albert Lamorisse, an Academy Award-winning filmmaker.

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BgMry TIL Mosquitos are humanity's deadliest predators; they have the highest kill toll on humans each year, and it has been claimed that almost half of the people who have ever lived have died of mosquito-vectored disease
DMbj TIL The United States attempted to buy Greenland in 1946 for $100,000,000
X0ZD6 TIL in 1931 a 15 year old went to a hospital in Chicago and was mistakenly given a transfusion of blood from a parrot because the physician misheard the doctor’s instruction to “use her parents’ blood.” The hospital staff frantically searched for a parrot and extracted its blood for injection
9w4M TIL Black Irish aren’t black (i.e. of African descent), but rather they generally have dark hair and are most likely related to people who migrated from the Iberian peninsula as the last ice age ended.
nebVP TIL that London's Australia House gives out drinkable water from 900-year-old 'holy well'