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TIL We could kill all mosquitoes with little to no effect Ecology: A world without mosquitoes

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v1Kr8 TIL a tax auditor in Finland died at his desk in his office, and no one realized he was dead for 2 days.
Zp5Za TIL Newton tested the theory of gravitation involving the moon and Earth but found a discrepancy so large that he did not publish it. Six years later, a new measurement of the size of the Earth and distance of the moon came out and Newton recalculated again to show his theory worked
QJ1Op TIL cnn has a pre recorded footage known as the "turner doomsday video" which is suppose to air as soon as the end of the world happens. it was recorded around the time ted turner was still the news anchor for cnn around 1980.
NXgvJ TIL that frozen embryos show no significant effect of storage time on post-thaw survival for IVF, and that pregnancies have been reported from embryos stored for 27 years.
KOZRB TIL a sperm whale’s “click” is the loudest sound produced by any animal and it has an identifying dialect. They aren’t born with different vocal chords but acquire their dialects from one another in the same way you or I might taken on our parents’ accent