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TIL, when mosquitos are sucking your blood, their fluid levels need to be regulated. They do this by peeing on you...

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gMjn4 TIL multiboxing in gaming can be traced back to as far as April 1992, with the TinTin++, a MUD client made up of 700 lines of C code and which allowed playing and botting multiple characters. The Merc (MUD) developers discussed a programmatic way to detect multiboxing on Usenet in 1993.
arWZ TIL Kuchisake is an Japanese urban legend of a woman who either mutilates the faces of children or slices the children in half. Since the 1970s some Japanese schools became increasingly concerned that they require students to return home in groups under teacher supervision.
4Xmbo TIL George Eastman founder of the Kodak and helped to bring the use of roll film into the mainstream, suffered from a degenerative disease in his final two years. Eastman died by suicide with a gunshot through the heart. His suicide note read, "To my friends, my work is done – Why wait? GE."
DQGAP TIL That Sarah Bishop an American Woman of affluence in the 18th century, was kidnapped, became a pirate and eventually died a hermit living in a cave near Salem.
b8PE TIL: Although a symbol for the loss of cultural knowledge, it is possible that most of the material from the Library of Alexandria actually survived.