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TIL Rabies has the highest mortality rate of any virus at 99.9%.

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egab TIL that after Boromir had a dream urging him to seek Rivendell to the north, it took him a hundred and ten days to arrive, just barely making it in time for Elrond’s council. Tolkien wrote that the “courage and hardihood required was not fully recognized by the narrative”.
EgWnx TIL that Nolan Gould, who is best known for playing Luke Dunphy on the hit TV show Modern Family, who is portrayed as being not very intelligent, is a member of Mensa. In an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show he stated his IQ was 150.
Po7V TIL The Concorde supersonic jet stretched during flight due to the heat it generated. On its final flight the crew placed their hats into a crevice in the floor which appeared during the flight, as the aircraft cooled the crevice closed, permanently sealing their hats in the aluminum airframe.
BgbQK TIL that the Chinese general Zhang Zongchang had the nickname "Old Eighty Six". It's unknown what this meant, but rumours say this either referred to his height or the length of his penis, which reputedly was as tall as a pile of 86 Mexican silver dollars--a common currency of China at the time.
wLYXM TIL that there's a cattle station in Australia that is bigger than the entire country of Israel.