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TIL In Kansas, it is illegal to hunt whales, even though it is located in the middle of the country with no coastline in sight.

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GYnRj TIL in the 1850s, a British explorer called Somalis 'superstitious' for thinking that mosquitoes carried malaria. Then, in 1897, a British officer was credited for 'discovering' that mosquitoes carried malaria.