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

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4ge5 TIL there is a “zip bomb” that is only 42 kilobytes when zipped, but is 4.5 Petabytes uncompressed.
7r4Gb TIL that motorcycle world champion, Barry Sheene, enjoyed smoking so much that he had a hole drilled through the chin-bar on his full-face helmet allowing him to smoke right up to the start of a race. He died aged 52 from cancer of the oesophagus and stomach.
wL0KY TIL Alanis Morissette laid down the vocals in one take and that the producer got Flea and Dave Navarro to lay down bass and guitar tracks, respectively, to enhance the rawness of the sound
VMXj8 TIL The first Back to the Future script was rejected 40 times before Universal bought it. Disney declined after saying it was a “movie about incest” referring to the scene in which Marty kisses the 18-year-old version of his mother.
LQbrV TIL Gwyneth Paltrow has a daughter named Apple with the singer from Coldplay