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9wVEM TIL despite the overall lack of popularity of soccer in the USA, the 1994 World Cup hosted by the United States was the most financially successful World Cup in history.
xVogk TIL That Anita Hemmings was the first African-American female to graduate from Vassar College. She did this by pretending to be spanish, however she was discovered the day before graduation. She still received her diploma.
D1EVD TIL Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo was partly due to a volcanic eruption in Indonesia. Electrically charged volcanic ash short-circuited Earth's atmosphere in 1815, causing global poor weather. Rainy and muddy conditions helped the Allied army defeat Napoleon.
ADZd7 When a mosquito bites, it pierces your skin and draws blood with the tip of its straw-like mouth, or proboscis. In the process, the mosquito injects some of its own saliva, which contains an anticoagulant that prevents your blood from clotting around the proboscis and trapping the insect. (Only female mosquitoes, which need the nutrients from the blood to produce eggs, bite.)
OGBka TIL that in 1150 BC king Ramesses the third faced a Harem conspiracy conspired by his second wife Tiye, who succeeded in assassinating the king but failed to place his son on the throne.