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TIL Texas maintains a database of death row inmates’ last words

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8aXaX TIL scientists in China found a way to use genetically modified and infertile male mosquitos to wipe out large populations of mosquitos, pave the way of a mosquito-free future for us ????
P11ew TIL about Mitsuye Endo who was a plaintiff in the landmark Supreme Court lawsuit that ultimately led to the closing of the concentration camps in the U.S. and the return of Japanese Americans to the West Coast in 1945.
9wpnr TIL cheese has morphine-like compound named casomorphin
M707B TIL Ancient Egyptians and Greeks used electric fish to treat arthritis, gout and cephalalgia.
jN6Lv TIL "jayus" is the Indonesian word used when the joke said by someone is so bad one cannot help but laugh