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

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LkXOp TIL Verizon's "unlimited plan" throttles data speed and streaming quality unless you pay for "Premium LTE"
epkeD TIL about Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God, an Ugandan religious movement whose leaders claimed the apocalypse would occur on Dec 31, 1999. When that passed without incident, a new date Mar 17 was announced and a gathering held. There was a fire, killing all 530 attendees.
mJMP TIL Thomas Edison did not invent the light bulb. A Canadian by the name of Henery Woodward did and sold Edison the patent, Edison simply made a few minor tweaks to the invention and stole all the credit.
R5kLl TIL that 0.9 repeating equals 1. Proof: 1/3 = 0.3 repeating, when multiplied by 3, it is 0.9 repeating. However, 1/3 times 3 is equal to 3/3, which is equal to 1. Therefore, because 0.3 repeating = 1/3, 0.9 repeating = 3/3, which means 0.9 repeating = 1.
OGZyX TIL Neil Armstrong was filmed as he stepped on the moon with a $2.3 million upside-down camera. Westinghouse built for Apollo 11 a special model that the astronaut deployed by pulling a handle near the ladder he climbed down onto the lunar surface. NASA inverted the image for the TV audience.