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TIL in 1850s British explorer Sir Richard Burton called Somalis superstitious for believing mosquitos caused malaria

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e0goL TIL there have been over a million medically supervised injections (of recreational drugs) in a single clinic, without a single death.
dD8wB TIL that queen ants can live up to 30 years
j6Kvj TIL that turtledoves are called "turtle" because of their Latin name: streptopelia turtur
pVV4 TIL in the 1950s, hundreds of babies were on loan from orphanages to various U.S. universities. There, students could practice the latest child-rearing theories of the day on a real newborn. After a year or two, the babies would leave their multiple mothers to find homes in adoptive families.
BgxAK TIL: in 1896 two trains were intentionally crashed at high speed in the United States as a public spectacle.