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TIL that Iceland is essentially free of mosquitoes

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MN9a TIL that when a military drone crashed in Iran and the US government asked for it back, the Iranian government sent them a toy replica instead.
VM8WB TIL that a Brownie or Broonie (Scots), also known as a brùnaidh or gruagach (Scottish Gaelic), is a household spirit from Scottish folklore that is said to come out at night while the owners of the house are asleep and perform various chores and farming tasks.
7vVP TIL Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is a well-read historian who wrote a novel about Sherlock Holmes’s brother, Mycroft. His love of these novels stemmed from the books he read while travelling playing basketball.
GblQ TIL there’s a tribe in China that women are treated as superior to men, have as many sexual partners as they like free from judgement of the society
wLn97 TIL the father of Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes was a Vice President at Enron