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TIL: Mavis Beacon is not a real person

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pYyMQ TIL that Haff Disease is unexplained rhabdomyolysis (muscle breakdown) within 24 hours of eating fish. The cause is thought to be an unidentified poison.
ObkY TIL there is a Danish rocketry club currently aiming to become the first amateur group to launch a person into space.
jNjba TIL that according to Astronomy Magazine's list of "Seven Wonders of the Solar System", the Earth's greatest wonder is our oceans.
yVodw TIL the emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was attacked by rabbits and forced to retreat. In 1807, after signing a treaty, he proposed a rabbit hunt with his men for which, his chief of staff collected over 3000 bunnies. When the hunt began, the rabbits charged towards him and his men in a vicious attack.
R7nB9 TIL that the Communist Control Act of 1954, which criminalizes membership in the Communist Party, is still in full force and effect in the United States (however, no administration has tried to enforce it)