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TIL parental refusal of vaccination is child neglect

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xne7 TIL in 2009, Bill Gates gave a presentation on mosquitoes and malaria. After he explained the severity of the disease and how it’s transmitted via mosquitoes, he ended his presentation by releasing a swarm of mosquitoes into the audience.
loAkV TIL Kevin O'Connor of This Old House fame, was a senior vice president at Bank of America. The producers approached him for the new gig after they shot an episode at Kevin's house.
nW4do TIL China used more cement between 2011 and 2013 than the US did in the entire 20th century
N7m8M TIL that Shakespeare’s scripts contain over 2200 never-before-seen words—a diverse collection of loan-words from foreign languages, compound words from existing English terms, nouns turned into verbs, and creatively applied prefixes—many of which have entered into everyday language.
WvAN TIL that Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller, two wealthy extremely entrepreneurs, sent each other gag Christmas gifts. Rockefeller sent Carnegie a cardboard vest to make fun of his poor childhood. In return Carnegie sent a fine whiskey to Rockefeller, a devout baptist who had given up drinking.