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TIL: There are no mosquitoes in Iceland

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7r4X7 TIL more than 2,000 homeless people live underground in New York City. Commonly referred to as “Mole People”, they have a hierarchical community and often times are living directly under the most populous parts of the city
BJwx TIL that there is a massive Easter Egg involving a hex code and a cypher hidden in the show Archer that hasn’t even come close to being cracked yet.
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wLYr1 TIL that the the first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.