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TIL Iceland is the only country in the world without mosquitoes.

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JVmm TIL Lyndon Johnson liked to scare visitors to his ranch by driving his amphibious car downhill into a lake while shouting “The brakes don’t work! The brakes won’t hold! We’re going in! We’re going under!”
a8oNL TIL that despite the name millipede literally translating to "thousand foot", the first known species to actually have 1,000 legs was not discovered until 2020. There are 12,000 species known, there are estimated to be up to 80,000 species on Earth, and they have existed for over 400 million years.
9YLJQ TIL Woodrow Wilson gave immense power to his son-in-law William Gibbs McAdoo and appointed him U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and presided over the Federal Reserve
EBDV TIL Vincent Li, a man who randomly stabbed beheaded and cannibalized a 22yr old passenger who was sitting on the bus next to him, was released last year.
Y7GLW TIL that the official residence of the Canadian Prime Minister has been unoccupied since 2015, while crews work to renovate the building and remove rodents, asbestos, and obsolete mechanical/electrical/heating systems.