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TIL the youngest Olympic athlete in Rio ‘16 was born in 2002

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9r5m TIL Bill Gates once unleashed a swarm of mosquitoes into a crowd at a tech conference. Displaying the need to eradicate malaria, he explained to the crowd “there is no reason only poor people should be infected.”
neKA7 TIL that Rodney Dangerfield smoked pot at the White House during the Reagan administration.
LkNYP TIL guys who have sex at least twice a week are half as likely to die from heart disease.
kLRg TIL that when watermelons are grilled or baked they lose their granular texture and can even be used as meat substitute, a “watermelon steak”.
VBBKZ TIL The Hertella Auto Kaffeemachine was the first known dashboard-mounted coffee maker. Manufactured in 1959 specifically for the Volkswagen Beetle, it came with porcelain cups which could stick to the machine magnetically