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TIL The UK has been rabies-free since the beginning of the 20th century.

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ZpJ4v TIL Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 is the final N64 game ever released in North America. It released August 20th, 2002.
XEgG6 TIL that the name "battery" was first used by Benjamin Franklin in his experiments with Leyden Jars (early electrostatic capacitors) and originally only meant "a group of two or more" borrowing the term from artillery batteries.
jVQN TIL: Tom Hanks’ son is a “rapper” named Chet Haze who apparently keeps it real
x6b9k TIL former Alben Barkley, relegated to the back bench in his return to the Senate, noted in a speech, “I’m glad to sit in the back row, for I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty.” He then dropped dead.
EgM5P TIL in 1909, Major Frederick Burnham discovered a meteorite which had impacted Mexico already covered in ancient human inscriptions. Though the symbols are assumed to be Mayan, the "Esperanza Stone" has never been translated.