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TIL we now have the capability to wipe mosquitoes, and potentially the Zika virus, off the face of the Earth.

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9YJBX TIL over 300 species of fruit depend on bats for pollination and some fly over 100 miles/hour. Without bats we wouldn’t have cacao to make chocolate. Definitely changed my previous views on them!
nvkb TIL in 1934 Philo Farnsworth and RCA went to court to establish whose patent marked the beginning of TV broadcasting. In court, Farnsworth’s high school physics teacher testified that the boy, at 14 years old, first described to him the idea for a scanning tube, better known as a television.
eWR4 TIL that the Rhinoceros Party of Canada, a satirical, federally registered political party in Canada, received 1.01% of the popular vote in the 1980 federal election campaigning to repeal the law of gravity and provide higher education by building taller schools, among other promises.
VM45B TIL that stepping on a Stonefish, the world's most venomous fish, can result in needing crutches to walk for a month (if you survive the sting at all).
dnod TIL the American Civil War began in a man’s front yard and ended about 120 miles away in his new home’s front parlor (he moved to escape the war).