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TIL that there are only six places in world without Mosquitos Iceland ,New Caledonia ,French Polynesia,The Seychelles,Antarctica,Faroe Islands

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YWWx TIL a guy from Sweden rode his bicycle to Nepal, climbed Everest alone without Sherpas or bottled oxygen, then cycled back to Sweden again.
pkd8 TIL that a 19th century governor of Greece introduced potatoes to the country. Initially, he tried giving seed potatoes to skeptical farmers. When this failed, he piled them in public under guard, convincing people of their value. They stole the potatoes and planted them.
DBBJ TIL A guy named Joshua Abraham Norton declared himself Emperor of the United States and the citizens of San Francisco went along with it.
Z8lja TIL Tens of thousands of Romani were killed in the Jasenovac concentration camp, along with Serbs, Jews, and Anti-fascist Muslims and Croats. Yad Vashem estimates that the Porajmos was most intense in Yugoslavia, where around 90,000 Romani were killed.
XE8ED TIL WWII Japan's production of the famed Zero was hampered because the Mitsubishi factory in which they were made did not have its own airfield. Completed Zeros were hauled by oxen to an airfield 24 miles away. A shortage in feed supply starved the oxen, stranding newly made aircraft at the factory.