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TIl Australia and New Zealand have never had rabies
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TIL the city of Sodo in Ethiopia only gets up to 57F (14C) average temperatures in the summer despite being near the equator because of its location in the Ethiopian Highlands. The city's highest point is roughly 1700 ft higher than Denver.
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TIL that the although the opening of the video of Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen shows all band members singing, it is actually a 5-part harmony that's all multi-track recordings of Freddy Mercury's voice.
VB584
TIL that masturbation was a capital crime in the Puritan colony of New Haven, Connecticut
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TIL that Matt Leblanc, before he was cast in Friends, was told by a photographer to go to a dentist and file a tooth as it was longer. Matt couldn't afford $80 for the dentist as he only had $11 left to his name, so he bought 3 packs of emery boards (Nail files) and filed the tooth himself.
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TIL Casey J Fury, a civillian sandblaster/painter, started a fire onboard nuclear submarine USS Miami, so he could go home early. Several were injured fighting the fire. Fury confessed, and was given a 17 yr prison sentence and $400,000,000 fine. Never repaired, Miami was decommissioned 3/28/2014.