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TIL in a 2009 TED talk about Malaria, Bill Gates brought a jar of mosquitos onto the stage and released them into the crowd to frighten the audience into considering the dangers of Malaria closer to home.

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x075 TIL Rosacea, a skin disease found mainly in those of Northern European descent and also known as The Curse of the Celts, is actually an evolutionary adaptation acquired by ancestral Celtic people to fend off bacteria during seasonal periods of low ultraviolet levels.
dDw5E TIL the Hudson's Bay Company still exists, and owns Sak's Fifth Avenue
9wlgM TIL Copyleft is a thing
x66xg TIL that the human body can survive up to 60 days without food provided it gets properly hydrated
wokEJ TIL about airship spy baskets. Used by Germans during WW1, an airship hidden above clouds would lower a basket with a lookout below the clouds to help navigate or find bombing targets.