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

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VMn7k TIL as President McKinley was dying, no one knew where Vice President Teddy Roosevelt was. When located in the wilderness he raced all night down mountain roads on a buckboard wagon in pitch black and pouring rains to be sworn in.
DQ9ED TIL on the May 9, 1969, episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, Rogers asked Officer Clemmons, a black policeman played by François Clemmons, if he'd like to cool his feet with Rogers in a child's pool. Clemmons accepted after Rogers offered to share his towel too. Most pools were still segregated.
49kN TIL that Spider fighting in the Philippines is extremely popular with the youth, its like a form of high stakes pokemon.
KORAJ TIL Agatha Christie was a surfer. Agatha became skilled at body-boarding in South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, and in Hawaii she learned to ride while standing on the board.
loj01 TIL of Rachel Hoffman a 23-year-old Florida student arrested for cannabis and then pressured by police to work undercover to avoid charges. She was murdered in a botched sting to buy 1,500 ecstasy pills, 2 oz. of cocaine, and two handguns.