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LQYEP TIL ciguatera fish poisoning, which affects a half million people a year, can be sexually transmitted, can last 20 years, and has no cure.
J1dyl TIL mosquitoes are picky, preferring some humans over others based on things like the amount of CO2 they exhale, body odor, body heat, and even the color of clothes. Apparently, they're also fans of beer drinkers and pregnant women. They might even remember you if you have proved as tasty before.
O0Ze TIL that prisoners in the 1800s were fed lobster - and it was considered cruel and unusual punishment.
ojW TIL “urchin” is an old name for hedgehog, which explains how sea urchins got their name
4XyQw TIL of the Chagossians, an ethnic group native to the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean. In the 1970s, all of them were ethnically cleansed in able to build a US military base. In 2016, they were denied the right to return after a 45-year legal dispute.