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Y7BG TIL: There is a game called Desert Bus. The objective of the game is to drive a bus from Tucson, Arizona to Las Vegas, Nevada in real time at a maximum speed of 45mph. The feat requires 8 hours of continuous play to complete, since the game cannot be paused.
QJDxk TIL of Lewis Fry Richardson. He derived many of the complex equations needed for weather prediction in the 1920's. However, the math was so difficult that to predict the weather six hours in advance, it took him six weeks to do the calculations.
N7v4Q TIL One million people a year are still dying of HIV/AIDS (as of this article 2017) and Rock Hudson, a famous Hollywood actor died of AIDS in 1985.
glX8 TIL that a girl in Iran gave birth at the age of 9 after being prostituted by her parents. When she was 19, she was sentenced to death for incest and prostitution, until a lawyer intervened and had her sentence reduced to public beating and imprisonment.
Z86kB TIL: You can get rabies from inhalation of aerosolized rabies virus. It has been documented in spelunkers exploring caves inhabited by infected bats or by laboratory technicians homogenizing tissues infected with rabies virus.