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TIL The London Underground has its own subspecies of mosquito that lives exclusively in the stations and tunnels

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dDR47 TIL The tiny island nation of Tuvalu consists of nine islands. Interestingly, "Tuvalu" means "eight standing together" in Tuvaluan. This is due to the fact that only eight of the islands were populated before the Europeans "discovered" the archipelago.
oByrA TIL Gallium completely destroys Aluminium cans
yVYXV TIL about Cordelia Botkin, a U.S. woman who mailed a box of poisoned chocolates to Elizabeth Dunning, her ex-lover's wife, in 1898. Dunning and her older sister, Ida Harriet Deane, died two days later. It was the 1st prosecuted U.S. crime that took place in two states (mailed from CA to DE).
dDNAr TIL that alongside being an important figure in farming and an internet meme, David Brandt was also a Marine during Vietnam and received a Purple Heart
dD6lQ TIL that from 2010 to 2017, for every 5 new residents in the State of California, only 1 new unit of housing was built