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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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rMl1 TIL A man who was attacked and beaten outside of a bar turned into a math genius. Jason Padgett never made it past pre-algebra but after the injury, he began seeing the world in pixelated, geometrics shapes, understood the concept of pi and had a sudden ability to hand-draw complex fractals
En5w TIL that in the first Pokémon games you were supposed to fight Professor Oak at some point, but the fight was removed from the final game.
DE0r TIL Guardians of the Galaxy’s Chris Pratt was discovered waiting tables at a Bubba Gump Shrimp restaurant in Hawaii by Tommy Chong’s daughter. She offered him a role in her movie, on the spot.
rRl01 TIL in 2004, Audi designed a fake car specifically for the Will Smith movie iRobot. This eventually inspired the birth of the Audi R8
dLO7 TIL that mushrooms can create a slight breeze even when the air is calm. They release water vapour, cooling the air and creating a convective current that gets the air moving, carrying spores away from the parent.