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TIL Despite the entire animal kingdom in Australia trying to kill you, Australia has a rabies-free status

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jNEga TIL the classic 1970 war movie Kelly's Heroes was based on an actual robbery of the Nazi gold reserves by a syndicate of US and German servicemen in 1945. It was covered up by the US and Germany and only two gold bars found in 1996 have been recovered worth about $1m at today's prices.
9wKDX TIL in 1958 a military plane accidentally dropped an Atom Bomb on a farm near Florence, South Carolina. The nuclear reaction didn't occur, but there was still enough explosive to create a 25 foot crater!
yVXYl TIL Hemingway was three months sober when he killed himself in 1961
R5oel TIL in 1985, Wes Craven directed an episode of The Twilight Zone starring Bruce Willis
9OAD TIL a European hare can run at 37 body lengths per second, whereas a cheetah can only run 23.