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TIL: In 2007 the New York Times stopped using Times New Roman font and started using Georgia font - a font created for computers in 1993 by Microsoft

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E1P5w TIL Biologists are fighting malaria using genetically modified mosquitos which are immune and thus incapable of transmitting it. In other words, the easiest way to cure malaria in humans is to cure mosquitos instead.
grmoD TIL of Francesco Morosini, a Venetian general who is said to have "dressed always in red from top to toe and never went into action without his cat beside him." After his death, they embalmed his cat Nini alongside him with a mouse between her paws.
Y78x7 TIL bank reports for cases of check fraud in the US (for both business and personal accounts) more than tripled between 2018 (135,968 cases) and 2022 (451,852 cases).
ZJZa TIL that in 2013, the CIA publicly acknowledged the existence of Area 51 for the first time.
Dkjp TIL If a human dies in outer space their body won’t decompose due to no present oxygen (a key component to decomposition). A corpse could drift in space looking fresh & new for millions of years.