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TIL there are “rabies free” countries.

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eayD TIL that Teddy Roosevelt once gave a speech immediately after an attempted assassination. He started the speech by saying “Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.”
GYN6N TIL That the kid in the "success kid" meme is sometimes embarrassed by his fame, and he also raised over 100K for a kidney transplant for his dad, made easier when people realized who he was.
W7gNA TIL the 1991 movie Hook was originally meant to be a musical
7rNM7 TIL that Michael Faraday initiated The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures in 1825 which have been given each year except in WWII. Carl Sagan lectured in 1977.
DKkr TIL each new US spy satellite under the “Key Hole” program is expected to cost more than the latest Nimitz-class aircraft carriers.