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

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ddNj TIL of Henry Moseley, who rearranged the Periodic Table based on atomic mass and died aged only 27 in WW1. Isaac Asimov said of his death, ‘in view of what he might still have accomplished … his death might well have been the most costly single death of the War to mankind generally’.
MZAa TIL there are only 11 master cicerones (aka beer sommeliers) in the world and becoming one requires both winning a lottery & having an “encyclopedic knowledge and an in-depth understanding of all issues related to brewing, beer and beer service.”
16MDW TIL Heinrich Himmler's daughter, Gudrun Burwitz, never renounced Nazi ideology, spending most of her life defending her father's reputation. She died in 2018.
kOlO1 TIL Copper surfaces can reduce hospital infections
loGNG TIL Blue Whales are the largest animal to have ever existed on Earth, being larger than all dinosaurs, and every single big sea animal from the past