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TIL Mosquitoes are the most dangerous animal in the world, killing 725,000 humans per year through spreading diseases such as malaria. Only female mosquitos bite, making them the most dangerous.

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4k86X TIL Emerson Romero was a silent film actor who was deaf. When movies with sound were invented, deaf actors got less roles and the intertitle text was removed. This led him to make an early form of movie captioning in 1947 so that movies would still be accessible to deaf people.
rNWjw TIL about the Paraguayan War in which 90% of males in the country died as well as over half the general population.
GAYwE TIL that Catherine the Great’s enemies slut shamed her to the point that rumors of bestiality have followed her over 200 years after her death
ajmL TIL: Jupiter is so large that it and the Sun mutually orbit a point outside of the Sun itself.
6EBbl TIL with a 7 bil almond industry in Central California, almond farmers pay up to $350 a beehive to keepers for pollination services. This creates a wave of beehive theft. More than 500 beehives went missing so far this year in this region.