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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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GAKEG TIL that the city of Marseille dates back to an ancient Greek colony named Massalia and is considered one of Europe's oldest continuously inhabited settlements.
y4yl TIL Brandenn E. Bremmer was a child prodigy who taught himself how to read at 18 months and began playing the piano at 3. He completed high school at age 10 and committed suicide at 14.
M716A TIL The White City of Tel Aviv was constructed from the early 1930s to 1950s, based on the urban plan by Sir Patrick Geddes, reflecting modern organic planning principles. It is not a 'garden city', but an urban entity based on an environmental approach
GAMgj TIL that the 1998 film Small Soldiers nearly received an R Rating due to violence & explosions
MerrW Today I learned that a Czech cult member was caught torturing and cannibalizing her children when a neighbor's baby monitor accidentally picked up a video signal showing a boy chained up in a cellar