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TIL we could probably kill off all the mosquitoes with minimal permanent ecological damage.

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Lg7V TIL Quentin Tarantino set out to film Reservoir Dogs with a $30,000 budget and a 16mm camera. Tarantino received a message from Harvey Keitel who wanted to help produce and star in the film. Keitel helped raise the budget to $1.5 million.
vERr TIL Nickola Tesla fell madly in love with a white pigeon which “he claimed to love as much as any man would love a woman.”
EPyo TIL in 2007 The Pirate Bay attempted to buy their own country, Sealand, to attempt to gain immunity from various copyright acts.
R1G1 TIL that in 1968 there were four mysterious submarine disappearances. The USS Scorpion, the Israeli submarine INS Dakar, the French submarine Minerve and the Soviet submarine K-129 all went down.
yQWde TIL after seeing the 1989 Tony Danza comedy "She's out of Control" film critic Gene Siskel felt so distraught & depressed he nearly quit his career as a film critic.