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

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gMb8 TIL sales of Swiss Army Knives dropped by almost 40% immediately after 9/11
NVPb TIL that the only heir to the mighty Mughal Empire lives in abject powerty in a slum in Kolkhata, running a tea stall.
R7RW6 TIL: When Richard Dawkins originally coined the term, a "meme" was a basic elements of culture just as a gene is the basic component of genetics.
xVWpw TIL Julie Kavner, the voice of Marge Simpson, is 70 years old
grBWD TIL the richest person in the world was Mansa Musa, the 14th Century West African ruler, perhaps equal to $400bn in today's money. When he traveled to Cairo, he gave out so much gold that it depreciated the value of gold and caused over a billion dollars in economic losses in the Middle East.