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TIL Bill Gates once released a jar full of mosquitos into the audience during a TED talk on malaria

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NXr88 TIL beginning in 46 B.C., in celebration of Julius Caesar's return to Rome after defeating Pompey the Great, the Colosseum was ordered to be flooded for a ship battle reenactment in honor of his military efforts against Gaul & Egypt.
69bo7 TIL the art of surfing was first brought to California by Hawaiian prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole and his brothers, who taught Santa Cruz locals how to surf in 1885. He later brought surfing to England in 1890.
k5ad TIL that there is a system for threatened airline pilots to remove control and navigation capability from everyone on the plane, including themselves, using an Autopilot that cannot be over-ridden from within the plane. “I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.”
L700 TIL the coins collected from fountains barely pays for the cost of collecting the coins from fountains.
epDXk TIL that in Canada’s province of Nunavut, 30% of the population has attempted suicide, compared to 3% for the rest of Canada