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TIL that not all mosquitoes bite people to suck your blood.

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9gpX TIL: Martin Luther King Jr’s son met James Earl Ray asking him, “I just want to ask you, for the record, um, did you kill my father?” Ray replied, “No-no I didn’t,” and King tells Ray that he, along with the King family, believed him; the King family urged that Ray be granted a new trial.
e0a5L TIL that the man who founded the world-famous Sriracha, David Tran, came up with his own recipe of the original Sriracha sauce which was originally from Thailand by the company called Sriracha Panich. The man did not trademark the recipe which lead to its widespread releases from major companies.
VaMk TIL treadmills were originally a punishment used to harness human power on a giant wheel used to grind grains; hence the name “treadmill.”
x6BVB TIL that Turkish law in the middle ages allowed women to divorce their husbands if he failed to provide her with enough coffee.
1aXgW TIL crocodiles are homodonts i.e. each of their ~80 teeth is of the same type and they can get replaced upto 50 times over a lifespan of 35-70 years.