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TIL that in 2009, a 17-year old runaway girl was admitted to a hospital and found to have rabies antibodies in her blood. After two weeks she was discharged and disappeared entirely. She is the first person ever known to have survived rabies with no intensive care.

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6EN9Z TIL Bayer sold HIV and Hepatitis C contaminated blood products that caused up to 10,000 people in U.S.A alone to contract HIV. After they found out they pulled it off the shelves in the U.S. and sold it to countries in Asia and Latin America so they wouldn't lose money from it.
OYkR TIL that not only were there Kings and Popes in the Middle Ages, there were Antikings and Antipopes.
wLX9P A new study published February 15 in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society finds that the Andromeda galaxy is actually around the same size as our own galaxy. Scientists previously thought Andromeda was about two to three times the size of the Milky Way, and that it would one day swallow us up in a galactic smashup billions of years away. But researchers using a technique to measure “the speed required to escape a galaxy” have figured out why Andromeda is smaller than research has suggested, according to the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR). This could seriously change the outcome of that eventual merger.
v9a8 TIL Robert Kennedy was assassinated during the exact same week that the Rolling Stones were recording ‘Sympathy for the Devil.’ The original lyrics were “I shouted out 'Who killed Kennedy?’” but Jagger changed it to “I shouted out 'Who killed the Kennedys?’”
xVwV7 TIL Since 1953, women in South Korea have been allowed to take one day off a month if they have painful periods.