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TIL Cuba has a lower infant mortality rate than the USA

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E1P5w TIL Biologists are fighting malaria using genetically modified mosquitos which are immune and thus incapable of transmitting it. In other words, the easiest way to cure malaria in humans is to cure mosquitos instead.
E1JNX TIL that when a dead whale washed up on an Oregon beach, they decided the best way to dispose of the body was to detonate it, unintentionally covering the townspeople in whale blood.
W71g8 TIL that in 1978, anti-apartheid activist Donald Woods became the first private citizen to speak before the United Nations Security Council.
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VM6xm TIL that Pope Innocent IV (1243-1254) was probably the first pope who used personal arms.