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

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4kB96 TIL in the 1950s and 1960s trucks with fogging machines that sprayed DDT would be driven through American streets to kill mosquitoes and children would run behind the trucks to play in the thick fog that was created. In 1972, DDT was banned in the United States.
GY6LG TIL that on August 16, 1858, Queen Victoria sent a message of approximately 100 words to U.S. President James Buchanan. It took nearly seventeen hours to transmit by Morse code through about 2,500 miles of cable at a depth of often more than two miles.
lWV5 TIL that sending the New Horizons space probe to Pluto on a 15 year mission costs less than building the new Minnesota Vikings stadium
MxN0 TIL that due to budget cuts, the Hubble telescope will eventually burn up in Earth’s atmosphere instead of being brought back and put on display
QBwk TIL King Harald of Norway vowed to remain unmarried for life unless he could marry his true love, the daughter of a cloth merchant. She became the Queen of Norway.