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361: No Such Thing As The Mosquito Effect

No Such Thing As A Fish

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What's the Connection Between Gin and Malaria?

Did you guys know that mosquitoes are responsible for the magna carta? Is this another of your dansas? According to timothy c wingard, author of the mosquito, a human history of our deadliest preditor. The downfall of louis' siege of damascus was during a malariou season in 11 forty eight. And so they started making tonic water with loads and loads of quinine. It became this great heroic drink because it was saving the british colonizers in india from getting malaria. They chucked it in gin, and suddenly gin went from being a scourge on society to being a patriotic thing to drink when you pared it with tonic

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