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TIL if we eliminated all mosquitoes there would be little ecological damage aside from the loss of chocolate, of which mosquitoes are the main pollinator

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e0ewb TIL that in 1972, the year before the FAA began requiring passenger/baggage searches, there were 31 airplane hijackings in the U.S.
Wk959 TIL that one review of Thinner, written by Stephen King under a pseudonym, was described by one reviewer as "What Stephen King would write if Stephen King could write"
KOkvB TIL the brutal ruler Vlad the Impaler saved thousands of lives, on multiple occasions. He prevented huge battles by challenging the enemy general to a one-on-one duel to the death.
R7MG1 TIL the Occam's razor isn't the only philosophical razor, and there even is one called Newton's flaming laser sword which states "what cannot be settled by experiment is not worth debating"
x6vK1 TIL that Lawrence Dallaglio, former captain of the English national team of rugby, is also a chorister on Tina Turner’s song "We don’t need another hero". He was 12 years old, when they recorded it.