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TIL that the incubation period for rabies can be up to 7 years after exposure.

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7Eox TIL that there is a classified airline called “Janet” that operates out of Las Vegas’ McCarran Airport which transports contractors and government workers to and from the Nevada National Security Site (Area 51).
4kJMJ TIL that Polynesians and Native Americans met nearly three hundred years before Columbus' first voyage. Scientists found that people across several Polynesian islands had Native American DNA, evidence that the two groups met one another. Scientists traced their first contact to about the year 1200.
E1DZx TIL that Oxford, Mississippi was gifted a red double-decker bus by Oxford, England in 1994. Each year, the town has a long festival where they parade the bus around and eat barbeque.
058j TIL that 70 years ago, the Army hired 6 women mathematicians for a secret project and they became the worlds first computer programmers.
p8x78 TIL The Cheesecake Factory menu is 5,940 words long. The company has the extensive menu as a selling point and driver of word-of-mouth advertising. Researchers D. Godes and D. Mayzlin found that a single conversation by a new customer leads to an almost $200 increase in restaurant sales.