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TIL that a majority of ecologists are in favor of completely wiping out mosquitoes

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wJ51 TIL the Portuguese man o’ war is not a jellyfish, but a siphonophore, a colony of creatures that cannot live independently of one another.
LP89 TIL 10 of first 12 US Presidents were slave owners and the only two who weren’t slave owners were father and son John Adams and John Quincy Adams.
P1Olw TIL Mayor Richard J. Daley presented the bluegill fish to then-crown prince of Japan, Akihito, in 1960 as a gift from the city of Chicago. The prince donated the fish to fishery research agencies in Japan but they escaped and became an invasive species. Emperor Akihito apologized in 2007.
evN4 TIL of the graphite bomb, a non-lethal weapon that can be delivered via warhead causing failure in electrical power systems by spreading a cloud of fine carbon particles that encourage arcing and short-circuiting between power lines.
D1kg TIL Louie CK once repeatedly asked Donald Rumsfeld whether or not he is a lizard, live in XM radio.