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TIL there has been more human casualties in the Mexican Narcotics wars than in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.

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loaOV TIL dogs generally do not get tired of barking.
m1lmx TIL Dance music reduces mosquitos drive to bite/feed and also reduces their ability to mate. Skrillex’s “Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites” was tested on the insects which caused females to search for a meal later and interrupted the males and females ability to find each other to mate.
e5D5 TIL after several overburdened hospitals turned away a 22yo woman’s 4 Ebola-stricken family members, the Liberian woman fashioned protective equipment out of plastic garbage bags and treated them herself for 2 weeks. Three of the Four family members survived.
PNEw TIL that if someone is infected with Rabies, once the symptoms appear, a person rarely survives the disease, even with treatment.
Bgxey TIL that two of the three battalions of Fiji's military is on international peacekeeping duty; one in Iraq, and another in Sinai. They are the third largest contributor to Sinai peacekeeping forces and the leading contributor to Iraq's.