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TIL rabies kills 59 thousand people a year

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PNpJ TIL that people in the Mongolian Empire did not believe in washing themselves or their clothes, wearing the same clothes until they literally rotted off.
nWkY TIL in Germany around 1923, banknotes had lost so much value that they were used as wallpaper
X09n6 TIL that in the early days of rail transport, there was a railroad in California where passengers were required to get out and push the train up steep hills due to inadequate engine power
jN0eX TIL it used to be common for woman in the US to wear extremely long metal hatpins but in 1910 hatpins longer than 9 inches were banned because woman were using them for self-defence and/or accidentally killing people with them.
KOb5E TIL President Coolidge and his wife had a pet raccoon named Rebecca who lived with them in the White House. Rebecca was supposed to be eaten for 1926 Thanksgiving dinner, but they adopted her instead.