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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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6940w TIL 2 people are buried on the Georgia’s Savannah Airport runway where hundreds of planes land every day
R5bV9 TIL that 102 years before "Prey," there was a film with an all-Native cast. Released in 1920, "Daughter of the Dawn" was shot in Oklahoma, and stars the son of legendary Comanche chief Quanah Parker.
rR0Xw TIL of "The Hole", a prison camp led by Scientology. One former prisoner reported that she had to stand in a rubbish bin for hours while executives screamed in her face and poured water over her.
YnVP TIL a 15 year old hacked NASA computers and caused a 21 day shutdown of their computers. Oh, and he hacked the Pentagon too…
rNWe1 TIL that the Utah state bird is the seagull (Larus californicus). This is because seagulls saved the people of Utah by eating up crickets that were destroying crops in 1848.