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TIL that the London Underground has its own resident species of highly aggressive mosquito.

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ZG7R TIL that EVE Online’s economy is so rich, that CCP (the developers) had to employ five full-time economists to keep things in balance and to prevent it from being unstable.
O85g TIL there are three things that your brain cannot naturally ignore: food, attractive people, and danger.
GYp8E TIL until 1948, 7 Up soda contained a mood-staibilizing drug, Lithium Citrate, and it was originally named "Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda"
P1l9E TIL A cypress knee is a distinctive structure forming above the roots of a cypress tree of any of various species of the subfamily Taxodioideae, like the bald cypress. Their function is unknown, but they are generally seen on trees growing in standing water
X05kE TIL that the landing craft used by the US during D-Day (and in much of WWII) were made mostly of plywood and initially designed for trappers, oil drillers and rum runners. The Navy started using them when they found the boats outperformed their own designs.