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TIL Mosquitoes pee on you. As a mosquito sucks blood, it needs to get rid of the excess fluid.

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Xom6 TIL A “Buttload” is an actual unit of measurement of volume - Equal to 126 gallons.
xVrgk Today I learned that Einstein won the Nobel Prize not for his famous equation E=mc^2 but for the discovery of the photoelectric effect.
X0QLD TIL that during World War II, Qantas operated a series of flights called "The Double Sunrise" from Australia to Sri Lanka that took up to 33 hours. The name came from the fact that passengers and crew would literally see two sunrises on the westbound journey across the Indian Ocean.
OGYj4 TIL that only 58% (26/45) former US presidents served only their full elected terms. Between 1841 and 1977 it was only 37% (11/30), but 100% before and since.
EjDV TIL “Live from New York, it’s Saturday Night!” is the cold open for SNL because the original title of the show was “NBC’s Saturday Night” with no “live” in the name.