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

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awxZb TIL the Apollo program was named after the Greek god of light, music, and the Sun, by NASA manager Abe Silverstein. Silverstein chose the name at home one evening, early in 1960, because he felt "Apollo riding his chariot across the Sun was appropriate to the grand scale of the proposed program."
yQ8pl TIL that in 1989, the U.S. military blared AC/DC music at General Noriega's compound in Panama for 2 continuous days. This eventually forced the dictator to surrender.
y8Bw TIL That if Queen Elizabeth lives for exactly two more years, she will be the longest lived British monarch ever
Y7xaG TIL Author Paek Nam-nyong is a household name in North Korea and his bestseller novel "Friend" became the first state-sanctioned novel available to English readers
0dN8L TIL: A Virginia Beach woman produced $31.8 million in counterfeit coupons. She was sentenced to 12 years in prison “perpetrating a counterfeit coupon fraud scheme”. Her husband was sentenced to 7 years in prison because he was aware of and profited from the scheme.