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TIL that there is a campaign to rid world of the Flash Player Plugin

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7rgJp TIL the London Underground has its own subspecies of mosquito, which is more aggressive towards humans than its surface-dwelling relative.
4GyN TIL between 2007 and 2012, drug wholesalers shipped 780 million oxycodone and hydrocodone doses to West Virginia, or 433 pills per person. During this time, 1,728 people in the state fatally overdosed on the painkillers.
MY8K TIL of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in 1919 where over 1500 peaceful protestors were shot dead in 10 minutes by the British in India
PYprZ TIL: Robert Fortune was a Scottish man who infiltrated the Chinese tea industry in the 19th century, eventually smuggling out tea plants and revealing that the Chinese had been dying their tea with hazardous dyes, effectively ended the Chinese tea industry at the time.
NJB8 TIL Most people in China drink hot water instead of cold