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

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grXay TIL George Clooney is the nephew of José Ferrer, the first Hispanic actor to win an Academy Award.
78JXp TIL humans belong to superphylum Deuterostomia - meaning that during embryonic development anal opening forms before oral opening - in humans assholes literally precede mouths!
nedkW TIL about The Battle for Castle Itter, near the end of WWII, which saw US soldiers, French POWs, and renegade German soldiers fighting on the same side to hold the castle against an SS tank division.
rR7a4 TIL that the US has more ICU beds per capita than any other country
l77P1 TIL that in 1923 a small town in Kansas elected a 3-year-old as mayor, but he was removed 5 months later because the people realized that he wasn't able to run the entire town