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TIL that according to scientists, all of the mosquitoes in the world could probably be killed off with minimal permanent ecological damage.

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6EMrJ TIL there's a deep-sea sponge that can live up to 11.000 years
GYjV4 TIL that in 2017, the British Nutrition Foundation ran a survey which found that 18% of five to seven-year-olds thought fish fingers are made from chicken, and 29% thought cheese came from a plant
M7kXK TIL that fossilization is so unlikely that scientists estimate that less one-tenth of 1% of all the animal species that have ever lived have become fossils.
VM1m TIL they use stunt muppets for the actual muppet puppets
74xr TIL that the average American thinks that 26% of the federal budget goes to foreign aid, while it in reality is less than 1%, or 0.17% of GNI (compared to 1.4% of Sweden’s GNI)