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TIL fire can't burn in a zero-gravity environment; without gravity to create convection, the combustion byproducts become trapped around the flame and quickly deprive it of oxygen, snuffing it

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EgVRW TIL During his 2009 TED talk, Bill Gates opened a jar of mosquitoes and let them fly around, saying, “Malaria is spread by mosquitoes. I brought some… I’ll let them roam around. There is no reason only poor people should be infected.” He then revealed the mosquitoes were malaria-free.
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