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TIL about the elephant mosquito, which is 4 times larger than a regular mosquito, but actually feeds on mosquito larva

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GYd8G TIL that between 1978 and 1983, John Williams won six Grammy Awards for Best Score in a row. He won them for Star Wars, Close Encounters, Superman, Empire, Raiders, and E.T.
9YB8M TIL that in Mongolia, scientists discovered a fossil of a prehistoric creature known as a "Murder Swan," which had a bill with teeth, claws on its feet and additional claws on flipper-like arms.
VNxB TIL that a Princeton professor recently proved that you can have identical snowflakes after growing them himself
kJYDe TIL In the 1980s, an obscene image was snuck into one of the ice cubes in a Coca-Cola ad in South Australia. The company recalled and destroyed all of the posters, and the artist responsible for the image was fired and sued.
gMjJ8 TIL of the Treaty of Canandaigua between the USA and the Iroquois in 1794. Article 6, requiring the US to provide $4500 in goods every year, is honored to this day, but Article 2, protecting the land of the Oneida, was mostly ignored and their land fell from 6,000,000 acres to just 32 acres in 1920.