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TIL That it is very rare for an opossum to contract rabies due to their low body temperature

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Oo7jR TIL Charles N'Tchoréré, a Senegalese Tirailleurs Sgt. during WW1, CMDR of the Tirailleurs in French Sudan, came out of retirement to enlist in WW2 as a Captain of a French mixed Coy. Surrounded, they resisted for 3 days at 1 on 10. Refusing to be separated from his white men, Germans executed him
YjeA TIL that Hitler had a sister, Paula, who chose to believe that Hitler was not responsible for the Holocaust.
BrlXb TIL two girls, an 11 year old and a 12 year old, brought kitchen knives, pocket knives, and a pizza cutter to school in order to "sacrifice" classmates and get closer to Satan.
x6Eg7 TIL The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has its own version of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights: The Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam
6ExVX TIL: 60% of the passengers actually survived the Hindenburg Disaster