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TIL while there are more than 1300 species of insects in Iceland, no species of mosquitoes have yet been discovered, except the one preserved in the Natural History Museum, found in an airplane from Greenland in the 1980s.

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Y7gXW TIL about Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night (or Op PX). It was a biological attacked plan by the Imperial Japanese Navy to use seaplanes to deliver weaponized Bubonic Plague to the Western Coast of United States. The plan was abandoned and briefly reconsidered after the Japanese surrender to US.
VMG4 TIL Playboy founder Hugh Hefner is the cousin of former U.S. president George W. Bush.
dDyNE TIL that Rudolf Nureyev's grave in a Paris cemetery is draped with a beautiful, realistic mosaic of an oriental Kilim rug, in order to reflect the ballet dancer's life-long love of textiles and antiques.
lmWB TIL Disney quietly cut ties with McDonalds in 2006 so as not to be associated with childhood obesity
OGJb1 TIL free range chickens sleep in trees