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TIL that when left untreated, rabies has perhaps the highest mortality rates of any virus or disease, virtually 100% fatal.

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e0AJk TIL the last thing on BBC Television before it was switched off on the eve of the Second World War was a Mickey Mouse show which was aired at around 12.35pm on 1st September 1939. Seven years later BBC Television returned with a repeat of the same Mickey Mouse programme.
6E9AW The need to find fuel to generate energy is a profound drive within the biology of all living organisms: we all need food to survive. So it’s not surprising that our bodies have such a complex system to control food intake, driven by hormones.
xVwa5 TIL that since 2012, 6 people have choked to death during competitive eating contests.
1a5Nr TIL the reason we know what cyanide tastes like is because an Indian man, MP Prasad who committed suicide left a hastily scrawled note describing the taste. "Doctors, potassium cyanide. I have tasted it. It burns the tongue and tastes acrid," he wrote, solving a long unanswered question.
kOAXE TIL of "sea gypsies" who roam the sea most of their lives. Moken children have been demonstrated to be able to see better underwater while members of another group have a number of genetic adaptations for a lifestyle involving extensive freediving.