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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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epa44 TIL the Bruce effect, or pregnancy block, is the tendency for female rodents to terminate their pregnancies following exposure to the scent of an unfamiliar male. The effect was first noted in 1959 by Hilda M. Bruce and has primarily been studied in laboratory mice.
d87A9 TIL that it was the CIA who evacuated people from Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War and not the military as is commonly believed.
YpEbr TIL James "Scotty" Doohan was badly wounded during WWII losing fingers on one hand. To hide this Star Trek used a hand double but his injury can be seen when he carries Tribbles in the famous episode.
1QV8 TIL that when Uwe Boll tried to obtain filming rights for a World of Warcraft movie Blizzard said “We will not sell the movie rights, not to you…especially not to you.”
wBpo TIL that in the original story Pinocchio squished the cricket to shut it up. It continued nagging him as a ghost.