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TIL 39 Heaven's Gate cultists had alien abduction insurance that would pay $1M if anyone was abducted, impregnated, or killed by space aliens.

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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.
8aeBZ Despite its size (10 times as wide as Earth), Saturn is the only planet in the solar system that's less dense than water. If the planet were placed on an enormous ocean, it would be able to float.
4X666 TIL in 1977 a group of Chicago Sun-Times journalists bought a dive bar and used it as a front to uncover and expose political corruption and payoffs.
yPL8 TIL as recently as the 1700’s a man could use a woman’s pregnancy as evidence he did NOT rape her due to the belief one can only get pregnant if they enjoy the sex
grXyL TIL Japan successfully floated balloon Bombs into the US during WW2, killing 6 people in Oregon "the war's only fatalities in the continental U.S". But, the US Government did such an effective job of covering it up, Japan thought the attack was a failure.