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TIL that Mosquitos are the only type of creature to kill more humans than homo sapiens.

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p8JKN TIL Bong Joonho has won every Korean film award he's ever been nominated for. 55 out of 55.
BrglK TIL that most of the presidentially pardoned turkeys die within a year of being spared
eKag TIL in 1954 the US Government launched Operation Wetback, a mass deportation of illegal mexican immigrants.
gMVBD TIL During the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz mission, to help USA/USSR relations, astronauts and cosmonauts played smuggled audio recordings of glasses clinking, laughter, and many female voices. Houston radioed to ask what’s going on. "Oh nothing,” they said. “We finished work, just having a party up here."
wojyY TIL during the Apollo Program, NASA had an escape system for launchpad emergencies that led down a literal water slide into an underground bunker called the "Rubber Room" that could shelter up to 20 people for 24 hours