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TIL Mosquitoes have killed more humans than all the wars in history.

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YpANB TIL of Castle Infinity, a video game that was shut down in 2000 but was brought back when the servers were recovered from a dumpster by a former player and programmer, who established a new development team and relaunched the game online.
69YvQ TIL Jimmy Carter's mother was in the Peace Corps at 68 years old
N7LL6 TIL Photoshop 1.0 was released on February 19, 1990 for Macintosh exclusively at a price of $895. At the time of release, it cost around $300 an hour for basic photo retouching. Photoshop became available for Microsoft Windows in 1993 where it would reach global audiences within a few years.
aw1aL TIL in psychology "cognitive dissonance" requires distress from the incompatible ideas. The distress, if it results from incompatible ideas, is what's theorized to cause one to resolve the contradiction, if one is not distressed they are unlikely to be motivated to reduce the cognitive dissonance
oVbL TIL that Bill Cosby does not consider himself an African-American, just American