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TIL the only way Louis Pasteur was able to study rabies was to keep a supply of infected animals in the laboratory. His assistants routinely pinned down rabid dogs and collected vials of their foamy saliva and were under orders to shoot anyone that was bitten by the animals in the head

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gaQy TIL that the same Muslim family (the Nuseibeh or Nusaybah clan) have been the door openers at the Christian Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem for over 1300 years. They have acted as both custodians of the church and as mediators between the various Christian sects represented there.
8aNrL TIL that Guinness World Records were started by the Guinness Breweries to settle arguments about records debated nightly in pubs throughout Ireland when their managing director got involved in an argument over which was the fastest game bird in Europe, the golden plover or the red grouse.
KO58G TIL There was a special GM program that allowed astronauts to lease up to two Chevys per year for $1 each. Six of the seven original Mercury astronauts took full advantage of the program by leasing both a family wagon and a Corvette
epypE TIL that people with normal color vision might actually be seeing the same colors differently
e0ddD TIL there are 7,000 tigers living in the US either in zoos or privately owned, which is nearly double the estimated 3,890 tigers in the wild around the world.