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TIL that both male and female mosquitoes feed on nectar, plant juices and sugary fluids. The female mosquitoes that feed on human blood are attracted to persons with an abundance of skin bacteria.

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ZnXv TIL Napoleon Bonaparte’s penis was stolen during his autopsy and given to a priest in Corsica. In 1977, a urologist purchased it for $3,000 and kept it under his bed for 30 years until he died. The urologist’s daughter inherited the penis and has fielded at least one $100,000 offer.
4XDGR TIL In "The Land Before Time X" the long-neck dinosaurs gather together and believe in a myth that during each eclipse they must all stretch out their necks and help push the sun up so it doesn't fall. They succeed and celebrate having saved the world.
P1Kvg TIL of Est! Est!! Est!!! di Montefiascone, an Italian wine region in Italy. The name dates back to a tale of a prelate surveying wines for a bishop by writing "Est" on the door of the inns with quality wine. At a Montefiascone inn, the prelate was so overwhelmed that he wrote Est! Est!! Est!!!
R174 TIL the science fiction films ‘Contact’, 'The Fifth Element’, 'Gattaca’, 'Men in Black’, and 'Starship Troopers’, were all released in the same year, 1997
nW7wb TIL that when Jack Grimm tried to find the Titanic in 1980, he planned to take a monkey called Titan that was trained to point to the wreck on a map. The monkey was left behind when scientists objected. Grimm never found the wreck, despite his sonar traveling right over it.