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Parking, 2013 - by Alexey Menschikov, Russian

There are no mosquitoes in Iceland.

Due to colder weather and fewer ponds, the country has no mosquito population …except for one that’s been in a jar of alcohol at the Icelandic Institute of Natural History since the 1980s, when a University of Iceland biologist caught it inside an airplane.

“I chased it around the cabin until I got it… It’s the only mosquito I’ve ever found in Iceland.”

(Source, Source 2, Source 3)

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We say hello because of Thomas Edison. When Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone in 1876, ‘hello’ was mostly used to grab attention (‘hey, you!’). Bell wanted to use 'ahoy’, but Edison viewed phones as business tools with always- open lines that didn’t “need a call bell as Hello! can be heard 10 to 20 feet away.” Edison clearly won the battle, but Bell was so tied to 'ahoy’ that he used it for the rest of his life. Source Source 2 Source 3