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TIL that Finnish police found a dead mosquito while searching a stolen car. They tested the blood from the mosquito’s last meal and used it to identify the thief.

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vodR TIL that 50% of the fuel needed to get to Mars is required just to get out of low Earth orbit.
Q1kX TIL: the 19th amendment was ratified due to one vote, cast by Harry Burn. He was originally against women’s sufferage, until he received a letter from his mother.
4X51o TIL of Charles Dickinson West who was hired by the Empire of Japan in 1882 to teach steam engine mechanics & mechanical engineering at Tokyo University. He assisted in the development of the Imperial Japanese Navy & was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun by Emperor Meiji in 1905.
xxXD TIL that “electrocution” is a portmanteau of electric execution, created due to the invention of the electric chair ca. 1889.
GAoOg TIL AIPAC tried to hide evidence that it played a major part in pushing for the Invasion of Iraq in 2003