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TIL When Louis Pasteur was working on the Rabies vaccine, if he or his assistants got infected, they were to be shot in the head

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0wrPN TIL at present, out of the world’s nearly 200 constitutions, three still include a right to bear arms: Guatemala, Mexico, and the United States; of these three, only the last (USA) does not include explicit restrictive conditions.
vkOD TIL There were ancient stone tablets in Japan’s recent tsunami struck areas with inscriptions “Do not build your homes below this point!”
W7VLd TIL It was thought that only 1 surviving parchment copy of the Declaration of Independence existed until in 2017 a second was discovered in Chichester, England, it is still unknown how it ended up there
Jl7j TIL There is actually a unit of measurement called a “butt.” So a “butt load” is exactly 108 gallons.
BrRne TIL all US Government issued pens are made by a company named Skillcraft that only employs the blind