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9YOa7 TIL that "thalassophobia" is an intense and persistent fear of the sea and can include fear of being in deep bodies of water, fear of the vast emptiness of the sea, and fear of distance from land.
4YWg TIL that it would take 1,200,000 mosquitos, each sucking once, to completely drain the average human’s body of blood.
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