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TIL that many Scientists believe killing off mosquitoes would have little negative consequences.

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KOXLR TIL in 2013 an elderly care home in California was shut down leaving many residents with nowhere to go or care for them. After the rest of the staff left, a cook and a janitor decided to stay behind and, upaid, they looked after them 24/7.
dD7eZ TIL about Richard Huckle, described as Britain's most depraved paedophile. He had done his crime for more than a decade and had photographed and recorded his crimes. While he was serving his time, he was brutally tortured and murdered by another inmate who intended to cook and eat him.
oRZJW TIL Robert W. Service sent his poems to his father to be printed and given as gifts to friends. Service received back an offer of royalties for publication, the printers had loved the poems, The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses was an immediate success and Service quit his bank job the next year.
nM6d TIL it would take 260,000,000,000 balloons to lift The Pentagon
PwvJ TIL Moti Shniberg, business man, tried to trademark the term “September 11, 2001."on that very day, as the Twin Towers and Pentagon were still smoldering.