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TIL that in 2005, Jeanna Giese became the first human being to survive rabies

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X06Bk TIL that the word "Dreamt" and its variations, such as "Undreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends with the letters "mt."
VB5Np TIL Cass Elliot of The Mamas & the Papas had to overcome another band member's concerns that her voice was too low for his arrangements and that her obesity would hurt the band's success.
16Vm4 TIL bioluminescent sharks exist
Wkm9d TIL of Rhea Clyman, a Jewish Canadian Journalist who travelled to the Soviet Union and made reports on the Siberian labor camps and the Holodomor. This led to her deportation in 1933 after which she reported on Nazi Germany until 1938 when she was forced to flee due to growing anti Semitism.
GYk5 TIL that the Iranian Nuclear Program really got off the ground in 1976 when Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld convince President Ford to sell Plutonium to Iran.